Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call the Black Hills bleak. . . . Lucky for you Wild Bill and Calamity Jane are not around to avenge the honor of the Hills...
...newcomer saw a line of men double-timing along the walks. Even men who could barely walk, because of leg wounds received in combat, were forced to double-time to their cold, bleak barracks. Those who faltered were clubbed across the shins by guards...
...star performer was Paul Bellamy, a bull-necked businessman who represented no city, but the bleak Black Hills of South Dakota, where men are men and steaks are three inches thick. When he described the latter, Yugoslavia's gaunt, grey Stoyan Gavrilovic, the UNO subcommittee chairman, was visibly affected...
That would leave Sidney Wooderson's 4:04.2 as the mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...
...through combination with the first great stronghold of Communism - Russia - can upheavals and movements be successful. But Russia can give assistance chiefly to its neighbor peoples." Historian Dallin does not share Author Scott's faith that the Big Three can achieve permanent peace for the world. In five bleak chapters he tells why. He warns that the U.S., because of the shrinking of space and time by technology, has inherited Britain's hereditary role as antagonist of Europe's No. 1 power, whoever that may be. He also reports in detail the Soviet plans...