Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the scare has started many Japanese businessmen off on a new boom-the "gloom boom." They fearfully suggest that their businesses will collapse because their annual growth rate may fall from 30% to a mere 15%. And though Japan's foreign trade balance in December was the most favorable in a year, many Japanese darkly suspect that they are being frozen out of international trade. In Europe's Common Market, they see only a wall designed to keep Japanese goods out of Europe. The 19-nation Geneva agreement on textiles published last week will, in fact, open...
Early predictions would give the Crimson an easy victory this evening. The Columbia Spectator analyzed the Lion squad's prospects with pre-season gloom...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...
...found his fellow conspirators plunged into gloom. The only soldiers they could count on were the three paratroop regiments that had rebelled with them. The rest of the armed forces in Algeria were either in opposition or sitting on the fence. Challe, who had hoped to win by a bloodless coup d'état, collapsed. Salan made a last effort to keep the Revolt of the Generals going?again from a balcony overlooking the Forum, where a supercharged Algiers mob was again screaming that it had been betrayed. But Salan's words could not be heard?someone...
Traditional Dishes. Though gloom is heavy on the West side of the Wall, it is thick enough to cut on the East. On Marx-Engels Platz. crowds wander through the "Christmas Market.'' a bright-painted hodgepodge of game booths, carrousels, sausage counters and Ferris wheels. The displays are trimmed with Tannenbaum branches and Christmas decorations, but the people remain grim and unconvivial. At the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, knots of East Berliners gather to stare wistfully westward through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate. Murmured a bespectacled worker: "The Americans should have torn down...