Word: glooming
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...sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
...test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...
...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
Paring & Balancing. "Fortnight ago,indefatigable President Roxas told the Philippines Congress: 'The clouds of gloom which hovered over us eight months ago have dissipated.. . . This nation is moving courageously and confidently forward on the road to national health...
...those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation of educational advisers in the same industrial-rural area schools might dispel much of the gloom that these indifferently-informed sources pass on concerning the cost of a Harvard education and the possibilities for scholarship aid. Lastly, expansion of the Harvard book prizes and other Alumni awards might measurably close the gap that separates the less affluent high schools, and their graduates, from intimate participation...