Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside of the actual tower up above the bleak rooms resembles the set for an old Douglas Fairbanks classic. Jimmy has to poke his way gingerly along the shaky scaffordings and on the creaky stairs...
...things looked pretty bleak in Communism's domains. In Budapest, you must not cry. In Moscow, you must not laugh except at prescribed subjects. All you could do was to shut...
...Botanical Gardens are no more. A University-sponsored housing development will soon take their place, but until then only a bleak, blank space will great passers by at the corner of Linnean and Garden Streets. Above this barren area stands the Grey Herbarium, a Botanic Research center, the sole remaining part of the Cambridge landmark...
...tung made the entire march on foot, except for a few weeks when he was ailing. After a year, the marchers arrived in bleak Shensi. Of the 80,000 who had started out, only 20,000 reached their promised, unpromising land. Mao Tse-tung moved into a convenient cave in the cave-city of Yenan, just below the Great Wall, and proceeded to build his beaten Communist remnants into a new Soviet state...
...began as a routine rescue operation. Within 24 hours after an Air Force C-47 disappeared over Greenland's bleak south coast, search planes spotted the crash, 100 miles north of the Air Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...