Word: glooming
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...fear of war, fear of atomic disaster, fear of international catastrophe, fear of depression-false fears, my friends, of tomorrow and of ourselves. Fellow Americans, two years ago the people of this country proved that they will not listen to peddlers of fear. We shall ride forward over their gloom-filled talk and their cynical doubt...
...home, the President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm program and other vital legislation enacted. Then the President came to the meat of his speech. While the Eisenhower program was being passed, he said, "there have been sitting on the sidelines . . . the prophets of gloom and doom...
...fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this 'second Rome' . . . This embryo capital, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees; Which second-sighted seers e-v'n now adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see, Where streets should run and sages ought...
...Gloom. There is little that is gloomy or institutional about the camp. Sports are encouraged but never forced. A boy in a wheelchair is pitcher in a softball game; another on crutches plays first base. Most popular sport: swimming, with "hiking"-on crutches or in wheelchairs-a close second. The $80 cost per child [for a two-week stay] is split between the state association and the child's family or sponsor. The beneficial effects of these investments are soon apparent...
Canopus is the second brightest star in the heavens. Last week the Stratocruiser Canopus roared out of the sky onto Washington's National Airport, and out popped Sir Winston Churchill, arriving on an errand which shed only enough light to call attention to the encircling gloom...