Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cotton traders wanted proof that the plan would work, but like Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, head of the Cotton Textile Institute, and almost everyone else who had soberly pondered cotton's bleak future, they were prompt to endorse it in principle. At 22? a lb. the-U.S. cotton growers have priced themselves out of the world market, have come recklessly close to pricing themselves out of the domestic market. Government warehouses bulge with 6,500,000 bales of surplus cotton. And the price of rayon is now so close to that of cotton that many of the larger...
Four months later, Pfc. Whitehouse was shipped off to Newfoundland. He found it a bleak and lonely post, particularly in spring and summer. To while away the dull evenings, he wrote long letters to Rose. Then one day he met Nurse Theresa St. Croix: "I just met her and had a few dates and that was that...
...Achtung . . . Achtung . . . Achtung. . . ." The bleak warning rolled endlessly from German loudspeakers as the Allied air offensive rolled endlessly on against German oil and transport...
...history was repeating itself. Thirty years before, the Russians had driven into the bleak, lake-studded land of many a Junker overlord and his cannon-fodder peasant. In August 1914, General Paul Rennenkampf's Russian army attacked from the east, General Alexander Samsonov from the south. The Germans were routed in the first battle...
...Third Army front in France, soldiers of the 35th Infantry Division eyed a bleak chateau in no man's land and waited for night to fall. There were children in the house-81 of them, by best reports-and they had to be taken...