Word: parlous
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Everywhere he looked, the prospect was far from pleasing. "The unresolved problems of humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme...
...parlous are the finances of the News-Call Bulletin, Hearst's afternoon paper in San Francisco, that recurrent rumors of doom wheel above it like vultures. Only last month, a new rumor began circling: the News-Call Bulletin would soon be absorbed by Hearst's other San Francisco paper, the Examiner, which would then switch from a.m. to p.m. to avoid unprofitable competition with the city's third daily, the morning Chronicle. Last week, with weary indignation, the Examiner took to print to try to shoo off the rumor: "There is absolutely no foundation in any report...
...Buckley had already made a national name for himself with his first book, God and Man at Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt gone Social-Democrat," he wrote. The press, he said, was a mess of "New Deal journalism"; conformity, fabricated by "Social Engineers," loomed as "the largest cultural menace in America...
Publishers also fear that some readers might kick the newspaper habit once they have been off it long enough-particularly commuters who have grown used to picking up magazines and paperbacks or taking home work from the office. Given the parlous financial condition of at least three Manhattan dailies, such penalties could prove too much to bear, and the long-predicted "shakeout" among New York's newspapers could come fairly soon...
...stock markets have been sagging for months. In some cases, the causes were local: the London Exchange reflected the generally listless state of the British economy and the government's eleven-month-old drive to prevent wage rises while the Tokyo Exchange was unsettled by the momentarily parlous state of Japan's balance of payments. But in most of the world's financial centers, brokers attributed their troubles to the fact that investors, preoccupied with capital growth, had run stock prices up to levels far higher than dividend yields or per-share earnings warranted...