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Word: bleak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Socialist Era | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 miles north of the nearest railhead (at Waterways, Alberta), and 26 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in a part of the continent bleak with long, cold winter nights. The village has no official name, but it is sometimes called Radium City. Last week it suddenly found itself part of an all but incredible world drama, for under its fir-bearded slopes lies the stuff of which atomic bombs are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Radium City | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...always "wished (he) had never been born," and looked so abject that once, after he had conducted the Queen of Saxony on an official tour of the Post Office, her gentleman-in-waiting pressed a half crown into his grimy hand. When he was offered a transfer to a bleak section of Ireland, Trollope gratefully accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trollope's Comeback | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Incidentally, some of the boys seemed to have fared differently from others Bob Foley shows up with a satisfied "hamang-eggs look on his face every morning while Reg-Com Grinaker still trudges wearily into Coeiw for a bleak, lonely breakfast every day. ("No dishes at home," says he, and the boys nod their heads knowingly...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/12/1945 | See Source »

...straight actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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