Word: glumly
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...slump pervaded Wall Street like a chill fog. The mood conjured up the grim humor of The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Market, a 19th century painting by William Holbrook Beard that hangs in the gallery of the New-York Historical Society. In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam. The topic was the recession and how long it would be before the Administration realized how serious it could become. President Nixon's press-conference avowal last week that no recession is expected came after the market's close...
...best parody of Graham Greene's style. He did not win, though his entry was printed.* In Travels with My Aunt, he has masterfully parodied himself again, body and bones, style and structure. This time he should win a prize-for the funniest book in many a long glum year...
...Such glum speculation about electric cars is brightly optimistic compared with the realistic analysis of Economist Bruce C. Netschert, director of National Economic Research Associates. He bluntly points out that the U.S. economy is geared directly to the mighty internal-combustion engine. Conversion of the nation's 101 million vehicles to electricity, even if possible, would cause nothing less than an economic trauma...
Americans on the War Divided, Glum, Unwilling to Quit...
...completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch everyday beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...