Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Washington's vast, unfinished Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul the late spring stalled along last week in a bleak drizzle from a lowering sky. Inside, flowers were banked and lights shone down on ten Bishops who laid their hands on Dr. Angus Dun, consecrated him Washington's fourth Episcopal Bishop. Among them were the Archbishop of York, first English prelate to officiate at a U.S. consecration in 73 years; Dr. Andrew Y. Y. Tsu, Bishop of Kunming, first Chinese Bishop in U.S. Episcopal history to assist at a consecration; the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry...
Army Man. Colonel Perón. now tall, handsome and 48, was brought up on his father's ranch in bleak southern Argentina. His boyhood was like that of a healthy, western Yankee. He played and fought with the local boys, rode wild horses, hunted wild turkeys. He entered the Army's Military Academy, became a sublieutenant at 18, a full lieutenant...
...From a bleak stone cottage in Epirus came news that shook the Greek exile Government apart. After 20 days of wary talk in the shadow of the snowy Pindus Range, Greeks in Greece clasped hands, agreed to drop their fratricide, devote themselves henceforth to killing Germans. Greeks in Cairo lost their nerve, began last week a game of tag which left them all demeaned...
...Bleak Dawn. Feebly the Budapest Government resisted. Premier Nicholas Kallay had asked the meaning of troop concentrations along the Austrian border, but the troops were over the line before the official answer came through. By the time the new German plenipotentiary, Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, called at the Foreign Office to explain suavely that Germany could not risk the rise of a Badoglio, German SS men were already stopping trains and hauling out Jews for "questioning." The Germans had long enjoyed the right to send 40 military trains a day through Hungary, fly their planes wherever they chose. Thus, when...
...black Ukrainian steppe the Red Army fought one of its greatest battles, won one of World War II's greatest victories. At week's end Red units swarmed across the Dniester, spilled onto the bleak, muddy Bessarabian plain of pre-1940 Rumania. It was the 1,002nd day of Russia...