Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funds for expanding astronomical research began to dry up. That left some 800 graduate students working on doctorates in astronomy with little hope of future employment; there are fewer than 50 astronomy job-openings per year in the U.S. "The handwriting was on the wall, and there was considerable gloom and doom among young astronomers," recalls Craig Chester, 32. "We decided that it's better to hang together than hang separately...
...state of the nation's morale and confidence in the future, was markedly depressed. Some 79% of those polled were very or somewhat pessimistic, down only slightly from 81% in May, which was several months before Richard Nixon resigned as President. The figures indicate that the national gloom then over Watergate has been replaced by despair about inflation...
...wire-rimmed spectacles instead of plastic ones." As he acquired the accouterments of the past, "the magnetic grip of this way of life began to settle on me." At Bard College, where he spent three years, he decorated and refurnished his room. "It was the epitome of Victorian gloom," he recalls...
Dropping out of school three years ago and settling in Tivoli, he transplanted that gloom to a six-room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition...
...Kennedy International Airport. This time the perpetrator was not a freaked-out Fischer but a small boy who discovered the skittish grand master hiding in an airport bar and led a charge of newsmen to the scene. Bobby bolted out the door, across a highway and vanished into the gloom. His handlers meanwhile, fending off the reporters with kicks and body blocks, were approached by a cop who got right to the heart of the matter. "Who," he wanted to know, "is Bobby Fischer...