Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiasm that he brings to the drama of charting new paths along a scientific frontier−a frontier that he sees expanding indefinitely. "We're going to find man flying in space for as long as a year some time in the future," he predicts. "The doom-and-gloom bit about man's inability to perform in a hostile environment has been vastly overplayed." His optimism, however, does not exceed his engineering caution. "We're doing all this within the realm of logic, precision and nature," he insists. "I don't look...
...candle glimmers through the gloom...
...supreme religious experience. No more complex effect of poetry has ever been conceived, yet Dante achieves it with simple means. He is always simple, vigorous, lucid. His descriptions are like paintings by Giotto: childlike in their simplicity yet sculptural in their power-when the shades approach him through the gloom of Dis, for instance, they "sharpen their brows" and peer at him "as an old tailor peers at the eye of a needle...
...have businesses to worry about in good times and bad times. If I weren't worried, I wouldn't be in business." Lyndon Johnson tried to ease the unease that Martin had aggravated, took pains to reassure the nation that "there is no reason for gloom or doom." Thousands of anxious investors sold their shares, sending the stock market into its sharpest drop since President Kennedy's assassination...
...showerhead." On the one hand, Lacerda accused Campos of selling out to U.S. businessmen by offering favorable deals to investors; on the other, he railed that Campos had throttled Brazil's development by imposing an unduly harsh austerity. "Instability, insecurity and disorder have been succeeded by depression, perplexity, gloom and unemployment," said Lacerda. And he added: "The price of the depression will be either dictatorship or the return of those we threw...