Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleak and dust-swept ranges east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., high-school science students with a yen for space travel are designing and firing their own small rockets, and tracking them through the atmosphere. Near Cape Canaveral, Fla., tourists are staying in motels with such names as "The Sea Missile," eating in "Missile Barbecue," holding night parties on a beach where they can watch the distant pink glow of missile night firings; in the mornings, Florida fishermen bring up bits of the missiles in their nets. "Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman...
...three second prizes of $25 were won by William Bassetti '59, Duane J. Murner '58 and John E. Trent '57. The first two gave excerpts from "Huckleberry Finn" and "Bleak House" by Dickens. Trent delivered the Nobel Prize Acceptance speech of William Faulkner...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...
...Kandinsky had to leave Germany. At first Gabriele joined him in neutral Switzerland. But when he went to Moscow, she returned to Munich, and the end came in 1916 after a final three months together in Stockholm. Gabriele's black mood was reflected in the bleak, burnt-out landscapes she painted on the ship going home. One year after Kandinsky left her, by then divorced from his first wife, he married the daughter of a Russian general; he survived the Communist Revolution, finally moved to Paris, where he painted his most lyrical and tightly composed abstractions, and where...
...week ago, intimates knew that Eden had reached a decision. The secret was closely held, eluded all the London press. No one even suspected when on Tuesday Eden and his wife boarded a train at London's Liverpool Street station and journeyed 100 miles north into the bleak Norfolk flatlands to see Queen Elizabeth at her country estate at Sandringham. There Eden told her of his decision...