Word: gloomiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Network and non-network stations all over the U.S. are producing talk shows, but none has done it with the insistence of WNTA, whose bustling, baldish supervisor, Ted Cott, seems to operate on the assumption that TV has already accomplished what its gloomiest prophets long ago predicted: killed the art of conversation on the other side of the picture tube...
...soberly testified that from their college years they got an "education and ability to think." Naturally, education did not solve all problems; 20 believe that World War III is inevitable and 172 think it likely; 374 tax-ridden Princetonians are convinced that the U.S. will become more socialistic. Gloomiest statistics: 80 happy men find living within income "a snap," but 328 say it is a struggle, and for 40 desperate graduates it is "impossible...
Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...
...Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts me to sleep"), Princess Grace of Monaco ("Awfully boring. That castle's the gloomiest place in the world−they probably use privies"), and Elsa's recent loss of a libel suit to King Farouk ("I sat six hours on a board. My fanny was absolutely black...
...travelers put in each year at Newfoundland's big Gander Airport, and few can ever forget the soul-sinking impression of bleakness that hangs over the place like a built-in fog. The ramshackle Gander terminal, jerry-built from wartime barracks and hangars, ranks as one of the gloomiest and most primitive stations on all the world's airways. Last week Canada announced that Gander will get a long-overdue facelifting. A new $2,000,000 terminal will be built this summer, with restaurants, shops, a movie theater and comfortable waiting rooms for weary tourists...