Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...registration lines formed and sneered: "You got any cats, dogs or mules to bring in and register?" But there was little heckling and no violence. Law of the Land. Smoothly as Katzenbach's operation went in the selected dead-end counties, he conceded that things were "pretty bleak" elsewhere -and civil rights leaders were quick to complain. Martin Luther King objected: "Our experience with the South compels us to say that if the cautious restraint persists, much of the purpose of the act can be defeated." King seemed to have a point, but Katzenbach stood fast. Defending his decision...
...LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John le Carré. The author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold has written another bleak, absorbing novel about Britain's aging espionage agents, their archaic methods, and their attempts to relive World War II glories in cold war intrigue...
...lately linked to Red China through a reciprocal defense agreement - remains India's implacable enemy. Shastri showed boldness at the run-in on the Rann, but again he compromised a bit: in the settlement concluded last month, India surrendered a few square miles of the Rann. Since the bleak reach of mud and desert is largely under water during the current monsoon season, it scarcely counts against...
...long-range outlook is bleak for jute, sisal, hides, and other commodities that struggle against increasing competition from synthetic substitutes. Wool prices have been clipped 18% in the last 18 months, complicating Uruguay's battle to end its trade deficit, and the price of rubber has skidded...
Thomson did it on familiar ground: England's Royal Birkdale golf course, 7,037 yds. of sand, gorse, bracken and narrow fairways that twist like green ribbons around the bleak coast of Liverpool Bay. It was at Royal Birkdale that Thomson won his first British Open in 1954-when Arnold Palmer was still an amateur and Jack Nicklaus was in junior high school. Palmer was there last week, gunning for his third British Open with a brand-new putter and the happy air of a man who has given up trying to give up smoking. So was Nicklaus, grimly...