Word: glumly
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Limping slightly from fatigue, his face ashen and heavily bearded, King Constantine of Greece, 27, walked down a ramp onto Italian soil. Behind him, glum and red-eyed, came his Danish wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 25, her mink coat still smelling of the mothballs from which she had hastily removed it. With them were their two infant children, Queen Mother Frederika, the King's 25-year-old sister Irene, and several loyal followers...
...daughter, a "secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think). It sounds like an un-American tragedy; yet Golding's story is no glum Dreiserian dirge. Eros wears a comic mask...
That is why their Congressmen are enthusiastic about funding new military gadgets and somewhat glum about backing programs to elevate living standards in America's numerous poverty pockets. In fact, the greatest effect of the government's foreign policy mythology may not be to counter dissent, but to divert attention from more explosive problems at home...
...swells while Pattie was hobbyhorsing badly. Intrepid's Dacron and nylon sails also were clearly superior to Pattie's, which were cut from an Australian fab ric called Kadron. The Aussies, who had spent upwards of $750,000 to mount their challenge, were frankly glum. "We just want to get this over with and go home," said Aussie Crewman Billy Burns...
CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that...