Word: glumness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Conservative Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, jubilant crowds stumbled over TV cables and shouted noisily at each new bulletin heralding the election of yet another Tory M.P. At 1:25 a.m., long after the Laborites at their glum command post across the square had conceded defeat in Britain's 1959 general election, an elegant, grey-haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown...
Pocket Rocket. Waddling happily to the rostrum of the Kremlin's marble-walled Sverdlov Hall, he greeted reporters with a grin as broad as the arc of a peasant's scythe. Even his normally glum interpreters, press officers and sword-bearers were smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned...
...billion. The Senate, he told his press conference, was "not taking into account the tremendous responsibilities of the U.S.," and he hinted that he might call a special session if military-aid cuts were not restored. And the Senate's Democratic leadership, including Bill Fulbright, was irritated and glum, because chances were good that when Senate and House conferees met to put together the final foreign aid bill, they would find Dwight Eisenhower's argument pretty hard to resist, would probably have to give him pretty much what he wanted...
Echoes of Misfortune. To the Belgians, who have been waiting a bit impatiently for their glum bachelor King to get married, Paola seemed the perfect answer to the national yearning for a royal romance. Blonde, gracious and 21, she is descended from one of Italy's oldest noble families, the daughter of the late aviation ace, the Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Duke of Guardia Lombarda and Count of Sinopoli...
...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...