Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commodore Perry Hotel, Adlai Stevenson spent 35 minutes closeted with senior Texas Democrat and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That night, at the university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
...national progress and reassurance had come to be symbolized by Eisenhower that there was real danger that the prospect of his retirement would pull the linchpin of trust. No man in either U.S. party approaches him in stature. His own party, last week so confident, was plunged in gloom by the prospect of fighting the 1956 campaign without...
...press conference, Benson said: "I assure you, I have not been amused by some of the old efforts that are being made to make a political football out of the farm situation. I feel very firmly that agriculture is basically sound today, in spite of the prophets of gloom...
...audibly: "Il les a eus" (He got them). As Ike paused"for the translation of his remarks, there was a clap of thunder and the lights went out. "I didn't mean to turn the lights out," said Ike with a laugh. The translators droned on in the gloom...
...Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...