Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely higher than last October. Measured by the important price-earnings ratio, stocks are lower than they were at the low point of the 1962 break. They are now selling at an average 16.3 times expected 1966 earnings, compared to a 17-to-1 ratio in the bleak summer...
...Heroes of Telemark bundles up the cast in woolly Norwegian ski sweaters, which is one way to pinpoint a drama's geographical center. The film was made in bleak, craggy Rjukan, Norway, site of the heavy-water plant marked for destruction in 1943 by a small band of Norwegian Resistance fighters in order to delay Germany's development of an atomic bomb...
...more than three years, the village of Krestova in British Columbia's bleak, windswept Kootenay 'hills lay empty as a ghost town. Winter snows blanketed the black hulls of bathtubs, the skeletons of old beds, the charred frames of burnt-out houses. Wolves loped where the valleys once ran fat with cattle, and local ranchers gave the town a wide berth. Then, last week, life returned to Krestova (which in Russian means "City of the Cross"). A band of burly, hard-eyed men and women with thick Russian accents trickled back to the Kootenays. The Doukhobors were coming...
...suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator, man the prey. "The ideal woman is a man," he wrote to Actress Ellen Terry -a bleak thought whose comic possibilities were brought out by My Fair Lady's Professor Higgins. ("Why can't a woman be more like...
...young bank clerk, Claude Mann, gets hooked on the game. He goes with his friend to a casino near Paris, where sounds echo off bleak, cold walls that resemble an early-morning subway station. Claude wins the equivalent of six months' salary in 10 minutes. He breaks with his tongue-clicking petit bourgeois father and takes off for the big time at Cannes...