Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flood might not come for 75 years. Others supported the idea of an expensive levee. It was the Kickapoo that had the last word. On the Fourth of July weekend in 1978, the river rose up and smashed through the valley, knocking down buildings, ruining crops and adding another glum watermark to the town's soggy history. Damage to the business district reached half a million dollars...
...Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content here to watch the other performers pamper their eccentricities while he stands off to one side, as glum and immobile as a Teamster's ashtray...
...recounting, this glum and familiar little tale of obsession worked out in an act of paltry vengeance sounds thin and narrow. And so it is, at bottom. But the story is told mainly in a jumble of quick-cut flashbacks as the man waits in the hospital to see if the doctors can save his sometime lover. Interspersed in all this are interrogations of the psychiatrist by the detective and some peculiarly nasty glimpses into the surgery room, where un pleasant things are being done to the lady...
...That was glum news for members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, who gathered for four days in Washington last week for their annual meeting to survey the state of the world economy. Highlight of the meeting was an impassioned speech by World Bank President Robert McNamara, who retires next June after 13 years at the post. He pleaded with industrial nations to do more to ease the economic problems caused in the less-developed countries by seven years of soaring energy costs. Yet, ironically enough, as a result of the Middle East conflict the industrial nations...
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...