Word: glumness
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...just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
Though few people ever get to see the furry white beasts, except for glum captives in city zoos, there is a plethora of polar bears around Churchill, especially in fall. By the time the ice freezes on Hudson Bay, as many as 200 may have passed through what local residents call the Polar Bear Capital of the World. The onetime fur-trading center happens to sit astride one of the animals' age-old migratory routes...
McLaughlin thought the experiment with the zone worked well and promised that the Crimson would try it again against other quick teams. Looking a little glum after dropping an intra-family contest to brother Tom, the UMass coach, he complained that each of the Crimson's last three losses came against teams hitting close to 60 per cent of their shots from the floor...
...fell to the ground as a cold wind blew across the field. Harvard had just lost its final game of the 1981 season to Dartmouth, 2-0. The faces of the Harvard field hockey team are filled with disappointment as they head towards the locker room. The glum mood continues to hang over the team as the players change. Sara breaks the silence with one of her patented jokes and gets the team laughing and smiling again...
Like most Great Society efforts, Follow Through survived on a year-to-year basis, largely because concerned parents lobbied for its funding. This fall, at their annual conference in Ypsilanti, Mich., Follow Through directors were glum. Though this year's program managed to survive Reaganomic budget cutting and win authorization for $45 million for fiscal 1982, federal money is due to dry up in 1984. When the states take charge of federal funds through block grants, Follow Through may fall by the wayside...