Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since The Struggle for the World, the West has reluctantly climbed from the misty valley of ineffectual good will to the bleak but clearer plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
...powerful union leader, Imberman found, frequently expects that he will get the same social recognition generally accorded successful businessmen. "It is a bleak morning indeed," says Imberman, "when the labor leader has the first dim realization that he has ... no prestige in the eyes of his community...