Word: gloomiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the gloomiest Old Testament prophet could have imagined the scourges that have afflicted Cambodia...
...although the presidency ages any man, Jimmy Carter is an unusually resilient one, and some of his characteristics are unchangeable. The smile that punctuates even his gloomiest sentences continues to brighten his face and crinkle the corners of his eyes. The tone of sincerity is unchanged, even when he is greatly overstating his case, and so is the refusal to suffuse his speeches with emotion. Little real joy escapes him, except in his few moments of greatest exhilaration, but he rarely shows his anger, no matter how vexed...
...best to compensate for a cardboard part with another of his amusingly off-center performances. Shaw is hearty, as was his custom in recent times, but Ford, bereft of the kind of writing that made comic capital of his essential sullenness in Star Wars, makes one of the gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel, the giant steel-fanged heavy of The Spy Who Loved Me, beats on many people, including Barbara Bach, who will be remembered from the same James Bond affair. Carl Weathers, a.k.a. Apollo Creed, is an angry AWOL improbably mixed...
...gloomiest day in the middle of winter to see the students coming down the streets to 5 p.m. Mass is just a magnificent sight--it speaks to the vitality of the Church," Ronan says...
...experts say, a shortage of investment funds will choke the still anemic housing industry, squeeze thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses out of the credit market and eventually abort the recovery-leaving the U.S. with insufficient plant capacity and an intolerably high level of unemployment. One of the gloomiest prognosticators, New York Stock Exchange Economist William Freund, calculates the investment needs of private industry alone at more than $4 trillion over the next decade. Freund predicts that industry will come up short by about $650 billion...