Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleak November day in 1952, twelve men dressed in somber suits gathered in a waiting room in Coshocton, Ohio. They were members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, and they had just attended the funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election...
...week long a cold wind hurled grey clouds out of the Northwest and across the bleak Atomic Proving Grounds in Nevada. The Atomic Energy Commission, well aware of public concern about radioactive fallout (TIME, Feb. 28), kept on postponing the big blast. But at 5:45 one morning, it touched off a small...
...stone's throw from Hitler's grandiose, marble-pillared Luitpold Arena on the edge of Niirnberg lies bleak, barbed-wired Camp Valka. refuge for fugitives from the Iron Curtain countries. At the Luitpold, time was when Hitler offered Germans the hope of Lebensraum. Today the U.S. offers Camp Valka's people a new chance in life-in the U.S. But the chance is still discouragingly hard to grasp...
...windfall money back from some 6,500 other building projects, said that he would keep right on trying. BIR. which has 1,400 other suits pending to reclaim an estimated $1.5 billion in taxes on similar building profits, plans to appeal the Tax Court decision. But its chances look bleak...
Last week the Down Under boom suffered a temporary setback. When Sinatra returned to Melbourne from Sydney, he found the 8,000-seat stadium burned to the ground, had to move to a smaller (3,000) hall, and Promoter Gordon faced a bleak week. Worse, Brisbane's newspaper Truth quoted Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Arthur Fadden who was "very perturbed" about the influx of profit-hungry American entertainers. "They are like butcherbirds," * said he. "They fly in, pick up the worm and fly away again." Nevertheless, Aussie audiences went on cheering, and when he flies...