Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rifles and sniper scopes now stand in towers above the exercise yards. Eighteen alleged leaders of the uprising are still held in an isolated cell block under "protective custody." A sense of tragedy is almost palpable in the dark hallways that spread like fingers through the prison. The gloom is accentuated by the wheezing and clicking of gates and locks...
...return for the lives of twelve Israeli hostages. During the past five years, Palestinian terrorists, Latin American guerrilleros, Viet Nam War protesters and common criminals in Europe and the Americas have been responsible for roughly 260 skyjackings and political kidnapings. Their bold forays have brought a Dark Ages gloom to travel and diplomacy in much of the 20th century world. What has been learned about how to deal with them...
After that, lawyers trundling from session to session heard a dismal litany of problems ranging from continuing prejudice against women and blacks to the new right of indigents to get free counsel for misdemeanor charges. The most widespread gloom at the meeting came from the constantly discussed threat of no-fault automobile-liability insurance (and the end of the billion-dollar collision litigation business). The A.B.A.'s House of Delegates staunchly reiterated its opposition to the basic idea but hopefully proposed a compromise: mandatory automobile liability insurance, which would pay up to $2,000 to each individual covered, regardless...
...long friendship with Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of a Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed her to join the party: "His Royal Highness is so anxious that you should do so." They danced together all night, he escorted her home, and a friendship began that lasted for 17 years...
...clear from their cries of gloom and doom that a number of colleges and universities are endangered by falling enrollments. In fact, according to a study by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education published this week, 110,000 freshman places in four-year institutions went unfilled last fall, 24% more than the year before. Are economic circumstances the major reason for those empty seats? Not according to the author of the report, Richard Peterson, a research psychologist for the Educational Testing Service...