Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
...question remained whether the world was a bleak as Krishnamurti made it out to be. Aren't there moments of pleasure and happiness...
...motive had been discovered, too: an entry in Kinsey's diary, made "on or about March 26," indicated that he thought his wife had been unfaithful. Things looked bleak indeed for School-teacher Kinsey...
...fictional version of the Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident, followed by an obscene wave of antiSemitism, was documented in a bleak narrative by Maurice Samuel in Blood Accusation, published this year. Malamud coincidentally worked on the same gruesome subject, but he has gone beyond journalistic intention...
...Norway, big and small businesses this summer are getting bleak answers when they make loan applications as longtime bank customers: "Sorry, but we don't have money...