Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gloom over the economy...
Even amid the gloom surrounding steel profit reports, Bethlehem Steel's third-quarter net loss of $477 million, announced last week, stood out as one for the record book: it was the largest three-month loss ever reported by a U.S. corporation. If the company had not been able to take advantage of $417 million in tax credits, the red ink would have totaled $894 million, far exceeding even the full-year loss of $560.2 million that the bankrupt Penn Central reported...
...only impressive win of the day for the lackluster Crimson, top seed Martha Roberts devoured opponent Judy Luber bagels and breadsticks. Playing number six, Lisa Greco provided one more straight set victory, beating Pam Dey 3 and 3, before the tiebreakers and the gloom began...
Through all the gloom, King George and his band of wealthy discords kept winning. And the fans of York loved them and cheered for them. Even though the players were not true men of York, they fought valiantly for their land. And still the scribes wrote of the evilness of rich King George. But no one stopped to say, "Ah, but George has kept the winning way in fair York...
...strengths and weaknesses of the book are those of the Backhousian method. Rather than patiently penetrating the mysteries of history step by painstaking step, as would a professional Sinologue, both the historian and the historian he is writing about prefer to assault the gloom head on, neglecting details and looking only for the general pattern that emerges. For Backhouse this meant creating new details each time he needed to give credence to an already created story. For Trevor-Roper this means emphasizing certain old details in order to give credence to a new story...