Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House meanwhile marked time with procedural matters, awaiting the next round of the tax fight. Ways and Means Chairman Mills has consented to new hearings this week on the Administration's proposal for a surcharge, but the outlook for passage remains bleak. Even if Mills relents in his personal opposition to the measure, the sentiment in the House is now over whelmingly negative. Many in Congress believe that Johnson has been "cooking the books," as they say in the House of Commons, in order to make his spending and deficit forecasts seem smaller than they will actually turn...
...liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook for the future grey and bleak. Nor did such prospects encourage bringing new lives into the world...
...there are demonstrations outside the hall, the neighbors are not going to like it. Though the Amphitheater is ringed by the bleak slums of the South Side ghetto, the immediate area is heavily white and largely Irish. Daley himself lives not too far away. Should Negroes march in, things could get ugly. Civil rights demonstrators have marched on the mayor's house many times, and they have, on occasion, been met with bricks and bottles...
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN. Edward Albee transfers a bleak comedy by the late Giles Cooper from England to U.S. suburbia. Barry Nelson and Barbara Bel Geddes play a couple who can't make ends meet until she finds a career in the world's oldest profession...
About the only thing certain in the copper states of Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Utah is that this is going to be a bleak winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer...