Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this has convinced many previously hesitant airline officials that the plane is commercially practical, and has turned the congressional head wind against the SST into a tail wind. "My gloom has been dispelled," says Mike Monroney, chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, who less than two years ago was nearly ready to abandon the SST. "I am convinced that it is now time to get our SST off the drawing board." Says Boeing President William M. Allen: "Boeing would be prepared to implement a construction program tomorrow...
...into the expansion of existing ones. Said India's No 1 industrialist, J.R.D. Tata, at a New Delhi neeting: "No other country, including the most socialist countries, has resorted to such heavy, complicated and multiple burdens of taxation." As a result, added Steelman Tata, businessmen show "universal gloom, despondency and uncertainty about the future." K. P. Goenka, president of the powerful Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, charged that past 16 months have brought "no substantial additions to any major industry," and G. L. Mehta, chairman of the Indian Investment Center, complained that so many efforts...
...Korea. He also does not enjoy the company of his father, memories of school, sex, lack of sex, working in a bank, or much else. Other characters, some of whom might have been interesting, are perceived only by a kind of melancholic sonar: Wilkinson sends out waves of gloom that bounce off the other people in the book and return to him as angst amplified...
...morning is steeped with gloom. The little birds are retching and barfing in the trees. The Mother Charles is saddened, and the air is sick at heart...
...over West Germany on New Year's Eve, candles were lit and placed in windows to burn as symbols of the nation's hopes for reunification. Nonetheless, for Bonn the German New Year began in a mood of gloom. Cried the Bild-Zeitung in banner-headline indignation: SHOWDOWN WITH THE U.S. NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW OVER REUNIFICATION...