Word: glumly
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...grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin...
...where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska's Carl Curtis) the Senate overrode the veto 64 to 29 with...
...fourth quarter, its first profit in five years. Chevrolet output, still rising, inched ahead of Ford production for the first time, 522,000 to 511,000. But Ford, with sales 40% ahead of the year-ago rate, claimed it still led in sales. The only glum news came from Buick, which got off to a fast start and has already produced far more cars in the first four months of the 1959 model year than it did a year ago. Buick cut weekly production from 8,500 to 7,400 cars, laid off 2,000 Buick workers because field stocks...
...scene is set in a proper little horror of a boardinghouse in a glum old watering place on the Channel coast of England. The proprietor (Wendy Hiller) is a sensible, good-tempered spinster, but she has her hands full. She has developed a personal complication with the star boarder (Burt Lancaster), a writer fellow from America who is bound he will make an honest woman of her-until one day his ex-wife (Rita Hayworth) comes slinking in the front door...
...front page of half a dozen West German newspapers last week, the glum visage of Sherman Adams was matched by a portrait-no less glum-of a German bureaucrat named Hans Kilb. It was no accident. For six years husky Lawyer Kilb, 48, had served as appointments secretary and personal aide to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Last week West Germany's chief prosecutor slapped Kilb in jail "for investigative purposes." The charge: suspicion of corruption...