Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state officials approached the bleak, cinder-block house, a hostile crowd stared at them coldly. Waiting for them in the doorway stood Vera Black, a tiny, short-haired woman of 42 and one of Leonard Black's three wives. In the house behind Vera, her eight children waited, dressed in their Sunday best...
From such a bleak beginning, Jackie Cochran became a beautician, a nurse, a good airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs...
...Dickens' best-documented accounts of disease occur in Bleak House, in which he describes the paraplegia of Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...
...special report published by the National Science Foundation. Nicholas DeWitt of Harvard's Russian Research Center gave as definitive an answer as anyone has given thus far. From Soviet statistics and publications, and from tales of refugees and foreign observers. Expert DeWitt has pieced together a bleak picture of a onesided education that is wholly in the service of the state...
...bleak early hours after his heart attack, President Eisenhower instructed Dr. Howard Snyder: "You tell Jim for me to take over." White House Press Secretary James C. (for Campbell) Hagerty. who had been vacationing at home in Washington, landed at Lowry Air Force Base that evening and took over. For the next seven days, until Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams arrived in Denver, Jim Hagerty was the only official link between the stricken President and the worried world...