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Word: bleak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hards who intended to go away for a vacation, whether or no, found the outlook bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Vacations, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Rise of Consolidated | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Axis citizens who could peer through the propaganda learned other things that made the week a bleak one for the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR OF NERVES: The Proper Moment | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ALEUTIANS: Victory on Attu | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Outlook | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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