Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watutsis are as determined as ever to continue in the ascendancy they now enjoy. Not surprisingly, the Mwami's men dealt harshly with last week's rebels. After a hurried court-martial, 34 Bahutu gendarmes were executed by a firing squad in the Bujumbura stadium. A bleak future probably also lay ahead for several leading Bahutu politicians, including the former president of Burundi's Parliament, who were clapped in jail and charged with complicity...
...assignments in any given course are, on the surface, short. Seldom are students asked to prepare more than 15 pages a night. Students fresh from majoring in English are easily lured into believing that in the same way they swept through Bleak House, they can polish off the accumulated law assignments at the end of the year...
Hope that a future astronaut might some day find life on Mars faded deeper than ever into science fiction when Mariner 4 sent its remarkable snapshots across 135 million miles of space. The bleak, pocked surface of the red planet looked dead indeed. Because they saw no signs of erosion, space specialists from Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, who had directed the Mariner voyage, concluded that Mars probably never had any significant amount of life-supporting water. Though they were not quite ready to deny the possibility of Martian life, the JPL men seemed all but certain that what...
...Unions have got to learn to understand the world they are living in," Owen asserted as he reviewed England's bleak economic picture. They must leave "their never-never land" and the productivity per unit of labor must rise, if the British balance-of-payments is to improve, he said...
China's charges relate to two 14,000ft. mountain passes, Natu and Jelep, that lead to Tibet's Chumbi Valley. In this bleak terrain, swept by chill north winds, Peking claims the Indians have built "56 military structures," ranging from concrete gun positions to entrenchments, on China's soil. India concedes it has fortified the passes but insists the fortifications are on Sikkimese territory...