Word: glumly
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Hospitality & Restraint. By the time it was all over, Lyndon Johnson, who had been watching his TV set with glum resignation, was dressed in gaudy Paisley pajamas and ready for bed. Jack Kennedy was calmly accepting congratulations in his hideout and putting through a phone call to his wife on Cape Cod. At first, he planned to stay away from the wild mobs at the arena, but Bobby advised him to make the trip, and Jack sped off at 60 m.p.h...
Amid all the sake-gay festivity, the monks of Mount Sanjogatake were glum. Said 75-year-old Abbot Kaigyoku Okada: "Can a man meditate on the Buddha in the midst of passing geishas? That is why we sought mountain solitude. But now girls are to be allowed on our mountain, presumably with their boy friends. If one of my priests doing a cliff exercise happens to see a young couple, he may lose his balance and be killed." The abbot may have been thinking of a line popular with the mountain priests: "Woman is the root of disaster that even...
...royal couple with cheers, hurrahs and choruses of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When Meg and Tony emerged from Buckingham Palace after the wedding breakfast, the whole royal family pelted them with confetti and rose petals. In the lead was Queen Elizabeth, who had sat glum and stony-faced through the Abbey ceremony but now flung roses as riotously...
Nearly six years and scores of lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional, the Southern Education Reporting Service last week issued a glum report. Of the 17 affected states and Washington, D.C., only West Virginia and the District of Columbia are completely desegregated. Of the 3,039,133 Negroes in Southern public schools, only 6% are attending integrated classes...
Perfectionism. If most teachers share Dr. Diederich's glum view, Karin De Long is not among them. She is one of the best English teachers ever seen at one of the country's best high schools. Just 24 last week, and married to a medical student at Northwestern University, she has the face and figure of a campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling...