Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe what the old grads tell you, men. They are trying to lure us into their illusory way of thinking, but we must face both sides of the truth: not only is the future bleak; it is hardly more than a bitter echo of the past...
Another issue was the depression, which began as the Class was in the midst of its College career and which presented a bleak picture of unemployment when '31 graduated. The Placement Office was expanded at the time, in an effort to give the undergraduate information about the opportunities that did exist...
...south, Siberia has potential mineral, agricultural and electric-power resources beyond calculation. But its winters are the coldest on earth. In the past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid the foundations of a series of vast industrial enterprises. To develop this industry, the Soviet Union now needs the skills and crafts...
Punch Out a Meaning. At 48, Simone de Beauvoir is a handsome woman. She has never married, and her years-long liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has brought to birth only a bleak philosophy which says that it is up to each man or woman to punch out a meaning to life in a meaningless world that none ever sought. A not uncommon game among Paris intellectuals consists in trying to answer the question: How did Simone get that way? Her Parisian parents were Roman Catholics, her father a bookish lawyer, her mother a reserved middle-class lady. Simone...
...hope you will permit me to dispel some of the anxiety caused by your recent editorial about the Department of English, for I can't believe that our prospects are as bleak as you say. To be sure, Professor Rollins' retirement is a major loss for the Department as well as for the University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia...