Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passionate seeker after justice, repudiating a war he had helped plan, questioning the Great Society, testing the limits of liberalism. The napalm and the hungry children and the urban rubble had left their mark on this man. He had heard the chants of the demonstrators, seen the blank, glum stares of the unemployed, felt the smoldering anger that erupted at Watts and Detroit and Neward, Robert Kennedy, like many of us, searched for an answer...
...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...
...usual reasons for the decline of the novel were chewed over. Pop psychology and sociology have moved onto its turf. The New Journalists, crying Wolfe about America, have stolen its reportorial beat. Readers are spending a lot more time in bed with television. And there are always glum statistics about the high cost and low output of serious quality fiction...
...know if I have-or want -any political future in Massachusetts." With that glum assessment, Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson responded to mounting criticism of his order last week to shut down 40 military bases and reduce many others, including several in his home state of Massachusetts. An estimated 42,800 military and civilian jobs will be eliminated at a saving of some $375 million a year. Says a Pentagon official: "We have never hit so few places so hard before...
...race against Northeastern happened to be the last of the day and, after the finish, a glum mood settled over Huskie rooters in the rain-drenched crowd. As for Harvard fans, they felt as though even the Crimson J.V. boat could do well in the Sprints against anybody, and they seemed to be the only fans on shore to notice the sun finally come...