Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic and population growth cannot continue infinitely on a finite planet. But it also predicted that-unless growth was stopped -most of the human race would suffocate in pollution or starve soon after the turn of the century. This forecast stirred international controversy and made the club synonymous with gloom and doom. Then, when critics found glaring faults with the assumptions made by Limits as well as a crucial mathematical error in the computer model on which the predictions were based (TIME, Oct. 15, 1973) the Club of Rome retreated into silence. But not for long...
...dull moan, so he would take them out and put them on the stove every once in a while. And it would sound like singing for a few seconds, then slow down again. A drunk man came tapping at the window, calling "Nikahan, Nikahan," who sat still in the gloom until the man stumbled away under the northern lights...
Mining Oilfields. In chancelleries and countinghouses nearly everywhere, officials fear economic crisis leading to political instability. The evidence of this gloom was clear and plentiful last week. The price of shares on the stock exchanges continued to plunge?not only on Wall Street but also in London, Paris and other major cities. In Washington, a pall of pessimism hung over the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Representatives of more than 120 nations listened attentively to cataclysmic predictions that they would have dismissed immediately a year or two ago. The atmosphere was such that sober...
...headed into the homestretch of the second electoral campaign this year, the mood of the country and the sharply contrasting styles of its two major parties could not have been more clearly drawn. Offered a choice of Laborite Harold Wilson's balm or Tory Ted Heath's gloom, the voters seemed to be opting for the former...
...days ago he thumbed through a copy of a sermon given out in the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, by Duncan Littlefair, a pastor who has been genially opposed to Ford's political theology for 30 years. It was a shaft of light in the pardon gloom that spread over Ford's enlightened beginning...