Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the crooked little streets of Prague's Male Strana, past the tiny shops of the alchemists in Hrachany, and the towering St. Vitus Cathedral, stands a bleak dormitory, the Massarykovo Kolej. It was here on the 17th of November, 1939, that the Nazis began their bloody massacre of Czech students which resulted in all universities being closed for the remaining six years of occupation...
...bleak uplands of Al Capp's pan-Slobbic Utopia were tense with expectation last week. It was the day most eagerly awaited by Lower Slobbovians-G.O.S.* Day, when one lucky citizen is named to fill the U.S. immigration quota of one Slobbovian per hundred years...
Last week the Marvita chugged into tiny Hebron, most northern of bleak Labrador's mission-trading posts. Parka-clad voters padded aboard to mark ballots, picking one of the five candidates-a fisherman, a clergyman, an ex-Ranger, two wireless operators-as Labrador's lone representative at next month's national convention in St. John...
Deeper, more disturbing than any military danger, was a new idea in the sensitive Swiss conscience: a realization of their national loneliness. Isolation in war had seemed necessary and honorable. But, however bountiful materially, isolation now seemed spiritually bleak. The Swiss were quietly but unmistakably heavy-hearted about their prosperity. On their 655th independence day they felt as Voltaire did, when from his Swiss refuse at Les Délices he viewed the Europe of the 1750s...
...Atomic Big Three, only Canada has "an excess over its own requirements of uranium." Nevertheless, 20 Government prospecting parties are currently out in the bleak Northwest Territories hunting for more...