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Word: gloomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dying, nor is it behaving very differently from its usual form. Instead of either gloom or wrath, the week's events should have evoked a new, realistic appraisal of what the U.N. really is and what it can accomplish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: U.N.: Between Illusion & Disillusion | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...India's Jawaharlal Nehru. But the President plainly felt that, for a while, the world's problems could come second to U.S. politics. He therefore turned his mind toward the dozens of smoky, noisy political headquarters across the land, where partisans had gathered to exult or gloom over their candidates' fortunes. And he had himself a fine time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Back in the Fray | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Glee Clubs at Sanders | 11/11/1961 | See Source »

...singular genius of the framers of the so-called Blue Laws to discover the peculiar Truth that any activity carried on in Greater Boston of a Sunday must invariably be infected with an air of cavernous gloom (man should certainly be discouraged from drinking on a day when Liquor would only bring on a bilious attack); and it is only to be regretted that they did not enlarge their prescription to include orchestral concerts. For last night's Bach Society concert was certainly a flaccid and weary affair for the most part, and perhaps far-sighted and selfless Legislation might...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 10/30/1961 | See Source »

...usual, soprano, apparently on the theory that only girls are nice enough to be angels: he fancy-pants around with his camera in a ludicrous gilt-plaster palace that looks as if it were made of baroque-candy; and he ever-so-reverently overdresses his hovel scenes till they gloom and glow like cheap reproductions of Murillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: $ign of the Cross | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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