Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to the party school in Berlin with Wilhelm Pieck, now puppet President of East Germany, grew up in Bremen's Socialist politics, was clapped into jail by the Nazis, released after two months and ordered to stay out of his city. Kaisen went no farther than the bleak moor, seven miles from Bremen, where the U.S. colonel found...
...picture was not entirely bleak, Rogers pointed out. In September 1954, 34,521 cases were pending in federal courts. Nine months later, on June 30, 1955, 29,979 cases were pending-a reduction of 4,542. "However," said Rogers, "we cannot be satisfied with the rate of reduction." Adding his voice to that of his deputy, Attorney General Herbert Brownell told the lawyers that the backlog was the department's No. 1 problem. "The immediate objective of the 94 U.S. Attorneys," he said, "is to obtain swifter justice in the courts of our land...
Soldiers Field was bleak and sodden yesterday, as rain filled the pockmarks on the practice fields. But despite the weather, Coach Lloyd Jordan and the varsity football team continued to concentrate only on preparing for the Cornell game Saturday...
DURING the bleak years of the Great Depression, millions of U.S. families learned to rule their lives by the household budget, religiously parceling out set amounts for all needs, from mortgage payments to shoe-shines. Many families divided their income into envelopes firmly labeled Rent, Food, Electricity, etc.; others made ends meet by keeping a strict household ledger of every penny earned, every penny spent. But as the U.S. economy burgeoned, the rigid family budget began to die out. In the midst of prosperous 1955, a manager of Home Life Insurance Co. estimates that only one of 200 families keeps...
...portent of worse shocks to come. If he wins the election in November (which seems likely), Chandler will almost certainly throw out the supporters of Senator Earle Clements and found his own political dynasty. And, with the end of his machine at hand, Boss Clements' own future looks bleak: during the campaign Happy repeatedly swore to end Clements' career in Washington if he won the governorship. But in the flush of victory last week, Happy took it all back. "That was all made in the heat of the campaign," he said. Hardly anyone-least of all Earle Clements...