Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gloom, Not Doom. "We are still thinking in terms of our individual nations and not of the common benefits," complained a Venezuelan official after the conference finally broke up. Chile's Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux decried the "exaggerated, abusive" use of the veto, and Ecuador's delegate to Asunción, Julio Prado Vallejo, said flatly that the conference demonstrated "the unacceptability of new compromises...
...information about Viet Nam than any of his critics, and he has considerable justification for cautious optimism. His field commanders report that the military effort is going on schedule. The enemy is now being so badly hurt in the South that it is Hanoi that should be beset by gloom. But this is beside the point. Johnson is still unable to communicate to the American people a sense of what the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam, how U.S. interests are at stake as well as South Viet Nam's, the reasons for sticking out a long, enervating conflict...
There was no such frenzied activity in the Aussie camp. As a matter of fact, there was positive gloom-after flu knocked out half the crew and two of the healthy ones got into a brawl in a Thames Street rock 'n' roll joint. Figuring that a change of scenery might do wonders for their morale, Skipper Sturrock herded up all his ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines...
...suspicions thus raised about Ed Long deepened the gloom of a Senate already embarrassed by the case of Connecticut's Tom Dodd, by the vulgar performance of the other Long, Russell, who stalled legislative proceedings for five weeks over the tax-endowed campaign-fund act, and by the scandal of Adam Clayton Powell on the other side of the Hill...
...morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...