Word: pessimistically
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...Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique was born. Often, Nimitz remembers, he and Sherman would retire to the big map room where they would talk, look at the map and think. Said Nimitz: "Sherman never hesitated when things looked worst. He's a realist without being a pessimist...
...optimist or a pessimist," announced Socialist Norman Thomas to a Kansas City audience. "I am a meliorist...
...Little Research. The U.S., Hirsh concludes, may as well admit that it is a "drinking society," and "make provision for those among us too ill to cope with it." Prohibition is "as unscientific as it is unrealistic." But Hirsh is no pessimist. Psychiatry can help, he thinks. So can such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous...
...wage earners, a Canadian Pacific telegrapher named Alex Nudelman summed up the mood of his 12½ million countrymen: "We've been so used to good times, it's this coming back to normal that hurts. I'm no pessimist, but I don't think that 1949 is going...
...that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant to throw their full strength into the fight. "Being by nature an optimist," said Bernadotte, "I haven't become a pessimist...