Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toppled in two weeks. The members stood up to Finch's intrepid challenge, and the amendment died in committee. Several days prior to the vote Finch had apparently called off his dogs. In a press conference after the vote Finch forewarned ominously, "Just because some of the prophets of gloom and doom say it can't be done...if it's the people's will, it is going to be done." As soon as Finch capitulated, the Jackson press corps began speculating that the entire escapade was a carefully planned ruse designed to create a volatile isue that could serve...
...author heard that the Duchess d'Uzes was delivered to the door of Stillman's Gym in a Rolls-Royce. "She paused at the turnstile, a lovely, graceful girl who always wore long light-blue chiffon to set off her golden hair. She peered into the gloom. 'Where's everybody?' she called . . . Lou Stillman approached. I don't know if he produced one of his in finitesimal spittles. Let us say he cleared his throat. 'Everybody is not here,' he said." Such stories have been unavailable since the days of A.J. Liebling...
...breaks lead to frustration, which can easily turn into pessimism and gloom. Rafto, Mark Meyer and others insist that this was not the case, however. "We just never gave up-we kept trying to put it together. At the Princeton meet (the last dual meet of the season) we put in nine varisty runners and we all ran our hardest...
...really concerned with the doom and gloom reports," Robert J. Ginn Jr., Director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday...
...seems to have been contained for now by radiation therapy, maintains a full schedule. She makes guest appearances on local TV, has lectured at medical schools, continues to drive-although she must walk with a cane-and plans to turn her columns into a book. Despite periodic bouts of gloom, her courage never flags. "I am coming put of a long siege of metastasis [spreading of the cancer] and subsequent treatment and I am tired and sometimes in pain," she wrote recently, "but I am not dying. I don't feel I am going to die for a while...