Word: glumly
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Last week, in front of Jogjakarta's nameless hotel, the people no longer shouted friendly greetings; they had only glum, sullen stares for white men. Said a Dutch official: "Indonesians, like the Dutch, would rather live in a leaky sod hut of their own than in the finest foreign-built building. Will Indonesians have another building of their own? Now they are not sure. When they come to trust us to give them independence, as we promised, they will work with...
Scene II found the couple listening to the last half of the game at the Wellesley police headquarters waiting hopefully for a bail clerk to appear any minute, but the d---bail clerk didn't arrive until 5:30 p.m. By about 3:30 a very glum couple tried to auction off the two Harvard-Yale tickets to some very non-interested Wellesley policemen. Part of the idea was to raise bail money...
...were really something to see: the mounting uneasiness of Pollsters George Gallup and Elmo Roper as they tried through the night to explain figures that continued to defy their predictions; the smug expression on the face of Republican Campaign Manager Brownell as he twice claimed a Dewey victory; the glum face of Democratic National Chairman McGrath as he first expressed confidence in his candidate, the camera's slow pan around G.O.P. headquarters after dawn, the empty, gaily decorated Hotel Roosevelt ballroom, with no one left to hear a victory speech that no one was to deliver...
...that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
Later on, Dewey backers were astounded and glum. Truman backers were astounded and delighted, but there still wasn't anything you could call excitement. In Memorial Hall the Young Republican Club made good on its promise to let the Liberal Union take over if Truman was ahead at midnight, and people cheered a bit as the returns over two television sets and a loudspeaker showed that Truman was holding on. In the center of the cheering, there was a small crowd of Young Republicans and their girls, formally dressed, drinking champagne, and never a one of them cracking a smile...