Word: glum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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SALEM, N.H.—Blyss C. Cleveland ’08, her face glum, stares out at the dreary landscape of political ground zero...
...with each passing year, from its crippling power cuts to the desperate popular obsession with the lottery. (Everyone in Burma seems to play the numbers.) But when I compare him to Winston, the rebellious protagonist who dares to trust his co-worker Julia, Ko Myo frowns and looks uncharacteristically glum. "There are no Winstons in this country," he says quietly. "People here don't even trust themselves anymore." Although he supports the U.S. sanctions, Ko Myo does not believe they will topple the regime, and now?after years of staying to help his country?he is one of many Burmese...
...crashed. The scene repeated itself over and over like a film loop, Gondry's very own Groundhog Day, without Bill Murray for comic relief. "There was nothing I could do to change it," he laments. "I woke up in a sad mood, a depression." He couldn't have stayed glum for very long, because Gondry, awake, is living an altogether happier kind of dream...
...before Clinton gets too glum, chances are the phone will ring and it will be one of the candidates calling to pick his brain. They want to know how Clinton would campaign if he were up against this President Bush rather than the last one. The old playbook won't work anymore; the landscape is changed, and this George Bush is building a legacy of his own. Whatever their differences, Clinton is talking to all the candidates because, his friends say, they share one goal: ensuring another one-term Bush presidency...
...would welcome any professor who would want to learn about this, but I don’t think you would want your biology professor to be coming up to you in an academic setting, and saying you look kind of glum in lab,” Hyman says. “I have nothing against providing information, but I think our major targets have got to be students and those involved...in House life...