Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to a climax. Feeling that their continued presence on the faculty was only making matters worse, Dean Brown and his seven followers formally resigned, even though the regents had agreed to re-study their decision. But whatever the regents may decide next June, the Sewanee seminary faces a bleak future. As of the moment-with or without Negroes-it has only one professor left for its 85 students...
...living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
...Bleak House. 83. Big blow-up of Arthur Kober's Having Wonderful Time...
...pulsing flow of blood, there was an unsteady flow with a backwash. For a dozen years the patient got along with rest and digitalis, but six months ago she became much worse. Anginal pain and failing strength forced her to stop working. Her future looked bleak indeed...
Behind the bleak, high-walled jail at Werl, the British hold reluctantly to the remnant symbols of a once-firm resolution. The remnants are 130 convicted Nazi war criminals. They are the surviving handful of men the British once vowed to punish. That British passion is now spent; in its place is a German passion to set the criminals free. Last week Henri Nannen, editor of a Hamburg picture weekly, Der Stern, shockingly dramatized the issue...