Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allowing for different accents and conditions, it would be much the same this week with all of TIME Inc.'s 294 members overseas. And for most of those who had spent the bleak Christmases of the war years abroad, there was a special difference this year: their wives and children were with them...
...paid off, e.g., the Rimouski diocese of the Gaspé Peninsula, where 33 new parishes averaging 150 to 200 families have been established in the past 15 years. But no one realized better than the Church itself that to the young men of today the virtues of pioneering sounded bleak and harsh beside the siren voice of the cities...
Ashore, Sugino learned of the adulation accorded him at home for his promotion to glory. Rather than surrender his godlike reputation and disappoint the folks, Sugino settled down to nearly a half century's hiding in Hulutao, a bleak blister on Manchuria's coast. But in Japan his fame grew with the years, reached fruition when death-seeking members of the Special Attack Corps began hurling then-frail planes into U.S. warships at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa...
Sister Theophane and Sister Michael, wearing the blue-grey habit of the Medical Mission Sisters,* arrived in Santa Fe, N. Mex. one bleak November day in 1943. The sisters had not come for the scenery. They were there because of a grim fact: Santa Fe County had the highest infant mortality rate (111 per 1,000) and the second highest maternal death rate (over...
...Summer is coming to the world's last great uninhabited land mass:the Antarctic continent. Even with the tepid sun hovering for months above the horizon, it will still be a bleak region. Its peaks, soaring to a frigid 15,000 feet, have little need for "keep off" signs. Man cannot support himself in the Antarctic, but with elaborate precautions he can maintain himself there long enough to thaw out some of its deep-frozen secrets...