Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in obtaining military facilities on the bleak archipelago...
...Defense was holding one of its periodic meetings. Canadian Chairman Andrew G. L. McNaughton and U.S. Chairman Fiorello LaGuardia hopped up to Churchill on a tour of their own. They reported that there were 1,000 soldiers, civilians and their wives (including 130 Americans) at Churchill on the bleak western shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There is nothing of that sort up there. . . . There is not a thing we are the least anxious...
...North Pole is a strategic hotspot. Over the ice-capped roof of the world run the shortest air routes from Russia to the U.S. Last week, the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in Norway's bleak Spitsbergen archipelago, within the Arctic Circle (Spitsbergen to Pittsburgh: 3,500 miles...
...Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...
...Canada has been, is, and may be in the future, more fortunate than the United States. ... It seems that nothing but catastrophe can check the furious progress of Americans into a still more bleak and dangerous desert of technology than they have reached now. The very vastness of the apparatus their genius has created stands over them like a strange and terrible master. Every man, as Sophocles said years ago, loves what he has made himself. Canadians have as yet fallen in love with no such Frankenstein. And, as a resuit of this, our future is more clearly...