Doldrums

Doldrums

dol-drums /ˈdōldrəmz,ˈdäldrəmz/

Noun

listlessness, feeling the blues, an inactive period


"Like JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy), Calvin Coolidge divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFk’s new technology was space travel, and Calvin Coolidge’s travel by airplane."


Amity Shlaes, (1960-)

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