Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of the gloom-shrouded photography that has become standard in Hollywood melodrama, the movie wisely stresses the quiet, sunny atmosphere of a pleasant residential street...
Rumbled Winston Churchill: Did the Prime Minister have "any statement to make about the present position in the Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly in respect to its policy towards China?" As Clement Attlee rose to reply, M.P.s could barely see across the chamber through the gloom. A member uttered the traditional parliamentary call: "Candles! Candles!" Electric lights blazed. During Attlee's ten-minute statement M.P.s sat anxiously silent. Churchill leaned forward intently, cupping a hand to an increasingly deaf...
...found herself engaged in a furtive and embarrassing job of housebreaking. She got quietly out of an automobile which had brought her up a woodsy Putnam County lane and left the car in the shadows. Then, flanked by three private detectives, she climbed a fence and sneaked through the gloom toward an unlighted summer cottage...
...showdown this week, Bennie lost his gloom as Michigan lived up to Big Ten tradition, beat California...
...Atlanta, Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of the city's largest church, said: "In my 31 years as a pastor, today's congregation was by far the most sober and serious that I have ever seen." The gloom, the doubts, the confusion, the feeling of helplessness to reverse the disaster in Korea could be misinterpreted; there was no panic, and though there was a desperate scurrying for any possible hopeful solution, there was little talk of appeasement. The way ahead would be hard, and everybody knew it. It had to be traveled, and the nation knew that...