Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fans Get Glum...
When it was all over last Monday, Walter J. Sullivan sat at his desk in the corner of the Cambridge City Council chambers. He looked glum, and he was. The place was almost empty. The eight other City Councillors had left, and with them most of the press and 290 spectators who had just witnessed two-and-a-half hours of the most divisive, bitterest debate in the City's recent political history...
...obviously delights in clothing cruel prejudices in elevated language? To an extent. But the magazine's chief offense is not crudity, but irreverence. The Left, both liberal and radical, bickers endlessly about how best to score points for Democracy and Progress. The Right, both conservative and lunatic, takes a glum sort of satisfaction in staging hopeless goal line stands. But Buckley and his legions just sit in the stands and snicker, maliciously...
...hardly likely to improve. Ayub has told the U.N. to produce a satisfactory solution within three to five months-or else. Whether the hawks around him will give him even that much time is open to question. "Things are going to get a great deal worse," says one glum Washington observer. "I won't even add 'before they get better,' because I don't know if they will...
...President looked glum all week, and Lyndonologists attributed his mood to the loss of two top men: Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Cabinet Secretary Horace Busby...