Word: glumly
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...back schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...five-verst shelf of books on Russia -hortatory, minatory or merely muddled, whether by Webb-footed economists, panting pilgrims, puffing pundits or Red-eyed viragoes-must surely comprise some of the most glum and gullible guff in the history of letters. A rare creature, exotic as a hummingbird in the tundras, has just been sighted in this dreary literary region. Truman Capote, previously noted for his ability in tatting webs of lacy sensibility, has written a wise and witty report on Russia...
Florida: Democratic state leaders are glum ; well-organized Republicans, hopeful. Based on his strength in populous west and south Florida, Ike has the edge...
...next two days, Harry Truman had the time of his life while politicians beat a path to his door (hardly a news story came out of Chicago that did not note that Truman was "obviously enjoying himself"). Stevenson visited for 30 minutes, left Truman's inner room looking glum, but turned on a brave smile when he emerged into the corridor. Harriman's headquarters soon got the good word: in his talk with Stevenson, Truman had flatly rejected 1) an endorsement of Adlai, and 2) a neutral stance between Stevenson and Harriman. Harriman aides set about preparing...
...turned out to be a Southerner: Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...