Word: bleak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bill would now go back to the House, which would hardly weaken the bill. It was a bleak day for labor...
...huge elevator at bleak, ice-locked Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat...
...cold wind blew out of the deep wooded Hudson valley and a bleak half-light streaked across the sky, President Roosevelt's widow and his successor stood in silence, with bowed heads. Only Secret Service men were near...
Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg...
...bleak pessimism of late-winter France came the new fad of Dolorism. The first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...