Word: glumly
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...such breast-beating session Henry Holland, the U.S.'s new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, finally managed to get a laugh from the glum Latins. Their responsibility, he reminded them, was not very different from that of the suitor who was asked by his beloved's father whether his intentions were honorable or dishonorable, and countered: "Do I have a choice...
...heads and they were told to pray. At that moment, a few pious and powerful members of the Sultan's entourage implored him to spare the wretches' lives; one even predicted that Allah would be angry if the death penalty were carried out. After some moments of glum meditation, the Sultan said: "All right, I will spare them, but they will stay in prison to the end of their days...
...returns on balloting for city offices came in, the astonished leaders of both parties kept rechecking to see if they were getting correct reports. By 11:30, only five glum Democrats were left in the celebration suite. The Republicans won every contest, including 13 judges. Statewide, despite a bitter intraparty quarrel (TIME, Oct. 26), the G.O.P. elected two superior court judges...
...France's Senate, known as the Council of the Republic, sit some of the most emphatic opponents of the European Defense Community and its six-nation army. Standing before them last week was glum little Georges Bidault, France's Foreign Minister, who had never really made himself clear on the subject. In the councils of the Big Three Foreign Ministers, M. Bidault seemed to favor EDC. In the divided domestic councils of France, agile
Although this was technically a victory for the Wagner forces, who engineered the court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass...