Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a competent mother, sometimes scolding, sometimes inspired, always devoted, she had kept her national family together through two world wars and a grueling Nazi occupation. In days when many European monarchs reigned only over exiled courts in bleak hotel suites, Wilhelmina kept her throne and the respect of her subjects...
...General Assembly was discouraging to sincere supporters of the United Nations, it must have sounded like the crack of doom to proponents of world government. By this time it should be clear that, if "World Government or World Destruction" represents a complete choice of alternatives, the future is very bleak indeed...
...Central Square yesterday announced that they would vigorously enforce a one hour night parking limit from 2 to 6 o'clock. All violators will be tagged, with one, two, and three dollar fines for successive breaches of the rule. Few open air facilities are available to relieve the bleak situation...
...Bleak House. "This" was both too little and too much. It was not enough to give Britons a dramatic sense of back-to-the-wall fighting. Yet the new restrictions, coming on top of all the others, deepened the gloom that hung over the island. John Strachey's Food Ministry slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces...
...granite and sandstone U.S. Treasury Building in Washington the grim conferences went on last week, late into the evenings. At breaks in the meeting, weary men, wilted by the heat, discouraged by the bleak facts they carried in their minds, walked the corridors with troubled step. They wished they did not have to say what was on their minds, but they also hoped that everyone in the Western world would understand its importance...