Word: glumness
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...chartered DC-6 roared down the runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
East Germany's worsening economic situation was reported in a remarkably frank session of the Communist Party's Central Committee. Goals for the seven-year economic plan were sharply reduced and the public warned to expect further belt-cinching. Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, in a long, glum speech plastered over more than two pages of the party newspaper, Neues Deutschland, blamed the persistent shortage of consumer goods on "citizens of every stratum of our society who take more out of the pot than they put into...
...Washington, many Republicans are glum. They read popularity polls and see both John Kennedy and the Democratic Party riding high. They feel themselves inundated by the floodtide of publicity about the President, his family and his Administration. "We're being brainwashed with Administration propaganda," says one Capitol Hill Republican. They worry about the ideological differences between the party's middle-roaders and right-wingers. They are distressed by the image of their congressional floor leaders, Senator Everett Dirksen and Representative Charles Halleck. who appear on TV in what is known as "the Ev and Charlie show...
January's glum weather kept nearly 700,000 employed Americans away from their regular jobs (v. fewer than 200,000 in January of 1961). As a result, the average factory work week melted from 40.4 hours to 40 hours; this, in turn, helped to bring down industrial production and personal income, both of which are determined largely by the length of the work week. Thinner pay envelopes-and the weather-also kept people away from the stores...
...salubrious" ferment in their classrooms. "This is the most exciting thing in my career," says English Teacher Harold R. Keables, veteran of 27 years at Denver's South High School. "There is a new appreciation of intellectual achievement. The kids are perhaps more serious, but not solemn or glum or dull. They are on fire with enthusiasm for learning...