Word: glum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixture of fear and defiance. Many of them refused to answer the roll, tore off their Manila name tags and kept their fists tightly clenched to forestall fingerprinting. Gradually they grew more bellicose. Compounds bristled with South Korean and Chinese Nationalist flags. Barrages of stones and curses descended on glum-faced Communist observers...
Italy gave the world Pagliacci, the story of a man who laughs even in the face of tragedy. But the sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them...
...occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping to bind together . . . the Commonwealth." Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their national sport, came a glum mutter: "Class favoritism!" ¶ Added: tax deductions, based on the cost of new plants and equipment (to encourage new investment). ¶ Soon to go: the excess-profits tax (30%), which will end next Jan. 1, leaving British industries and businesses with about $280 million more of their profits than they...
Baltimore baseball fans were agog; Milwaukeans, often roused by false alarms, vowed they would believe it when they saw it. Boston was conservatively glum over the loss of a not-so-cherished institution. St. Louisans in general shrugged-though a hard core of St. Louis Browns fans was outraged, and Mayor Joseph M. Darst filed an injunction against the chief instigator of it all, Browns Owner Bill Veeck. In such fashion last week, the cities most concerned reacted to the possibility of the first major-league franchise shifts in 50 years-the scheme to move the St. Louis Browns...
...Glum and pessimistic, United Fruit Co. officials in Boston and Guatemala City waited last week to see what Guatemala proposed to pay for 233,973 acres of company land at Tiquisate, expropriated by the land-reforming government. A curt official telegram to Almyr Lake Bump, the U.S.-owned firm's Guatemala manager, finally brought the answer: $594,572, or $2.54 an acre-and that in 25-year, 3% government bonds. The company's unofficial valuation: $11.5 million. "The measure constitutes a heavy blow to the voracious imperialist company," gloated the Communist weekly Octubre. "Practically confiscation," snorted United Fruit...