Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight long weeks of election campaigning, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, insisted that "steady growth and expansion is the climate of Canada today." Anyone, such as Opposition Leader "Mike" Pearson, who pointed to vanishing exchange reserves or fleeing foreign capital, was dismissed as a "crier of gloom and doom." Last week, barely six days after he squeaked back to power with a wobbly minority government, Diefenbaker abruptly turned about to announce that Canada's foreign exchange reserves had dwindled so alarmingly that he had been forced to call on the 'U.S., Great Britain...
...rhyme with gnome instead of plume. He is, after all, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, the model of a modern diplomat, discreeter than Nikita, never brusque with Rusk. But the other night Lord Home may have wanted to fume, or at least show a bit of honest gloom...
After a month of dispensing gloom, the stock market finally gave Wall Streeters something to smile about last week-the kind of smile that comes only because the pain is a little less painful than before. On Thursday, June 28, stock prices staged their biggest rally since the brief rebound right after May 28's Blue Monday. In the third largest one-day jump on record, the Dow-Jones industrial average zoomed 20.37 points to 557-35. Next day it rose again modestly to close the week...
...that comes bubbling up every time she opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera, despite her demurrer: "I'm never on when...
...they had imitated Blue Monday's plunge, foreign exchanges shot up on the news of Wall Street's Tuesday rally. On the Frankfurt Exchange, Volkswagen shares abruptly jumped from $125 to $145-higher than before the price break. In London, the Evening News headlined BOOM AFTER GLOOM and the Financial Times index showed its biggest morning surge since the 1959 Tory election win-though prices sagged again by week's end. Most dramatic of all was the recovery of the Sydney Stock Exchange: slow to receive news of Blue Monday, Australian investors were just beginning their...