Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high into the Arctic, where the sun shines day & night in summertime. It is a land of 60,000 gleaming lakes set in dark forests that sprawl over 80,000 square miles, a land of granite-strewn farms stingy in yield, of busy, sober towns and endless stretches of bleak, inhospitable marsh and tundra. "We gave them 17,000 square miles of our territory and perhaps a quarter of our national wealth after the war," explained a Helsinki editor last week. "But we will close our eyes to all the little slights and sacrifices as long as we can preserve...
...conscience of humanity has been shaken by those who went through the hell of the totalitarian concentration camps and lived to tell about it, in volume after volume of bleak horror. It is doubtful, however, that the world has yet heard anything to compare with the recital of Flight Lieut. John F. Leeming, R.A.F., who spent World War II as an Italian prisoner...
Misery, it seems has had a cathartic effect on the Advocate. Buffeted and bruised by scissors-and-paste contributors and an overly-genteel printer who couldn't spell, the magazine has emerged from a bleak Winter bright in cover and content. In fact, the May issue is both balanced in material and extremely readable as well...
This week, in the heavily guarded prisoner's dock, Ahmed's prospects looked a little bleak. The government wanted to make an example of the rioters who had driven away foreign businessmen and almost ruined Cairo. But no one was selling Hussein short. He knew a lot of important people and he knew a lot about them...
Better than anything else in A Long Memory is the fine evocation of place, and the descriptions of the bleak lower depths of river life. In Thus Am I Slayn (TIME, April 5, 1948), Author Clewes flashed his talent but failed to make his meanings clear. In this book his pitch is plain. But it is possible to praise him and still raise the question that a lot of gifted minor English writers prompt: Why doesn't he tackle something bigger...