Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yippies-1968's version of the hippies-were celebrating spring. Hardly had the equinoctial orgy begun, when it turned as bleak as a midwinter blizzard. A dozen youths scaled the information booth, ripped off the clock hands, scribbled graffiti and defiantly passed around lighted marijuana "joints" in full view of the Tactical Patrol Force. The fuzz charged, billy clubs flailing, and arrested 61 demonstrators. Battered but unbowed, the celebrants coursed off to the Central Park Sheep Meadow...
...glorious and unbelievable meet. But unfortunately it proved to be Harvard's dying gasp in Eastern League Swimming. The freshman meet that day foretold a bleak Crimson future. The Elis, led by Steve Clark, crushed the Yardlings 61-34, setting NCAA, pool, and University records with reckless abandon...
With good weather all year round, southern schools can practice all year and are traditionally super-powers in the world of golf. The bleak New England winter drove the Crimson clubmen into Dillon Field House, where they could practice shots...
Normally, Rittenburg would have run a leg for Harvard's mile relay team. But on that day--a bleak one for the fans in New Haven--McCurdy sent another runner in his weary captain's place. Without him, the team lost...
...husband, is a Freaked-Out who finds Method in the madness of portraying such things as a pine tree and a shy squash. His movements, though, are often so blandly repetitive that he would do better to imitate a dancer. Anna Sokolow, 55, is a Put-Down whose searing, bleak dances are a condemnation of society's ills. Try as she may, she can't seem to manage a smile. Last year she set out to strike an upbeat note in Time Plus 7 by having teen-agers frugging to jazz; in the end, she had the boys...