Word: pessimistically
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Then again, McCurdy is a member of the professional pessimist society...
...months uh wintah, guess we'll make it, just barely, and then after the black flies, we got summah again for a couple uh weeks, and then, damn sure, we got wintah, and I don't know if I'm up to it." A New Hampshire pessimist in good summer form can fret about blizzards three or four years away...
...variant sect of soft-core survivalists. They share the more moderate belief, long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town...
This combination of Helen's bright side and Annie's dark--of pupil and teacher, optimist and pessimist--makes Lash's study fascinating. "One approached the world with a chip on her shoulder and assumed everyone was ready to knock it off; the other reached out to the world with a heart filled with love and kindness and assumed the world would reciprocate. It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia." Without Annie--or when an outside force, such as John Macy intervened--Helen was at a loss. Without Helen, Annie was angry, vindictive...
...them Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (N.P.N.), could generate a following wide enough to qualify their presidential candidates. The freewheeling and occasionally violent campaign that followed persuaded some Nigerians that the experiment with democracy was premature. Said a professor: "There are two kinds of people here, the pessimist who says civilian rule will fall apart before it begins in October, and the optimist who says that it will fall apart six months later...