Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio...
...Thomson decided to become a farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...
Yale has a 3-5 record overall, 3-3 in the Ivy League. The Elis lost their season opener to Connecticut, 13 to 6--the first time in history Yale had lost to an home-state foe. Football fans in New Haven were prepared for a bleak, bleak season. But since then the Bulldogs have defeated Brown, Cornell, and Penn. On October 30 they nearly pulled off the upset of the year, losing to Dartmouth 21-17 after outplaying the Inlians for most of the game. Last Saturday, however, Yale was clobbered by Princeton...
...drilling platform went into position more than two months ago, 70 miles off the coast of Britain in the bleak, inhospitable waters of the North Sea. Crammed into submarine-tight quarters at night, buffeted by wind and wave, 36 men worked in staggered shifts, 20 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep the drill boring slowly into the sea floor beneath. Last week the punishing grind paid off: the rig's owner, Continental Oil Co. of England (a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Conoco), struck a promising, 64-ft.-thick pocket of natural gas that...