Word: pessimistically
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...Pessimist or optimist, nobody was talking of cutting back in a post-Korea letdown. Nothing that they saw beyond Korea had changed, and neither had their plans nor the urgency of rearmament. Phase by phase, here is how U.S. preparedness would probably look...
Practicing Pessimist...
...wartime course, he shrugs them off as "professionals of the Liberation." His friends have tried to excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...
Crew coach Tom Bolles, ever the pessimist, sang his pre-race blues with greater fervor than usual Thursday. Once again he lamented the damage that foul weather has done to his practice schedule. Princeton, on the other hand, works out in relatively balmy latitudes on an artificial lake, sheltered from winds...
...great number of Professor Beach's poems describe people. Critics have called him a pessimist, but he insists that he really takes a bright view of human nature. He says that although his poems depict suffering and failure, they nevertheless are full of genial appreciation of the game of life. "Human beings have a moral residuum that makes them worthwhile, even though, like the pitchblende from which radium is extracted, they appear pretty worthless at times...