Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone venturing from the halflight of the lockerroom into the pool stiffens for an instant as she approaches the pool. Perhaps it is Asimov's space shock--caused by the sudden shift from the low-ceilinged ill-lighted gloom to the vast high-ceilinged expanse of the pool room...
...London stage in 1961. In the novel, an enlarged and fundamentally altered work built around the play, Donleavy has stripped the classic fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports a cultured accent, acquired at Trinity College in Dublin, and through life in England and Ireland...
Between the end of 1972 and last month, when the latest study was completed, the consumer-confidence index plummeted 19 points to 71.8. That was a much sharper decline than in the 1969-1970 period just preceding the worst of the last recession. The report asserts that public gloom about all kinds of shortages and weaknesses in national leadership will soon show up in substantially reduced buying trends and that "a recession by early next year is possible, perhaps even probable...
Nightly Blackout. In contrast to gloom in Israel jubilation swept Arab cities. Everywhere Arab newspapers carried pictures of Israeli prisoners and the wreckage of vaunted Phantom jets. Al-Ahram Editor Hassanein Heikal quoted Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Vladimir Vinogradov as saying: "I have experienced sweet and bitter days, but this is the prime of my career in Egypt...
...dimension to the bearishness you attribute to me and other "scaremongers" in your story "Selling Gloom...