Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with a chuckle: "I looked at my program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes of hope, idealism and humor as well. A commencement sampler...
...first five innings, it was genuine tanning weather in the stands at Soldiers Field, with the sun shining and the temperature climbing throughout the afternoon. Quite a change, say the regular spectators, from the rain and gloom which usually plagues Harvard baseball. (Seriously, Mr. Reardon, if you can give the basketball, hockey and track teams new homes, the least the Athletic Department could do is dome over the baseball field...
...downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom. At last they had a few things to cheer: an extraordinary spacecraft-the most daring flying machine ever built-and two brave and skilled men at its helm. As President Reagan told the astronauts, "Through you, we feel as giants once again...
...exotic, intricately decorated, grand evening gowns which blend the pre-Raphaelite and Nell Gwynne styles. Demand for their work, which they advertise as 'bringing glamour back to evening clothes,' has grown as jet-set and upper-class balls have become more nostalgically lavish in times of general gloom." British commentators noted happily that Di seems determined to project a style that is in keeping with her own personality rather than that of a waxwork royal at Madame Tussaud...
Boom in the gloom-and-doom business of investment seminars They are the rock concerts of the 1980s...