Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was bleak news, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once again the dominant spokesman for the nation's Governors, refused to accept it. He changed the subject from the peace dividend to what is known as the "growth dividend," resulting from the normal expansion of the U.S. economy. Rockefeller reported that a study commissioned by the Governors Conference Committee on Human Resources, which he headed, had produced some interesting figures. Never mind whether any money comes from the slowdown in Viet Nam; the study projected that federal revenues would increase by $15 billion in 1970, $16 billion...
...Bleak and Forbidding...
...expected, the final 24 photographs that were shot just before Mariner 6 ducked behind Mars were the most dramatic. Taken from as close as 2,170 miles, they showed a bleak, forbidding landscape, unmistakably similar to the harsh terrain of the moon. "I've seen so many craters I'd hesitate to count them," said Leighton. "We expected craters, but not in such fantastic number...
Gingham Checks. Robert Natkin likes to refer to his beginnings as "early nothing." His father was a rag dealer, and so bleak was the Chicago neighborhood in which he was born 38 years ago, he recalls, that it left him with a lasting sense of esthetic deprivation-a fact that probably accounts for the almost pretty profusion of colors in his present canvases. After studying at Chicago's Art Institute, where he was most influenced by the Postimpressionist collection, he found no galleries in which to display his work...
...haven't got them. It's a hair shirt." Yet she quietly insists that "I am an inspired amateur cook," and is serenely, unmistakably feminine, a small woman with delicate features and huge gray eyes that seem to refract light. "People say I'm bleak about being a woman, but that isn't true. I'm bleak about being a human being. We talk about the disasters of the future. Well, the disasters are happening right now all over the world...