Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a pity if opposition such as this should destroy the Domestic Peace Corps; ACT has worked out a good program, and Harlem surely can use any number of new social work projects. But with Powell around its neck, the future of the Domestic Peace Corps seems bleak indeed...
...though the bleak, barren slice of territory inside Kenya harbors 200,000 Somalis, Kenya's black nationalist leaders, led by ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, have always vowed that loss of their northeast corner would mean war with their own black Rendilles, who cover themselves with feathers; with their Turkanas, who wear little except mud hats; and with the Marilles, who wear only rifles. Thus, Britain's Sandys was bound to make enemies -and to risk violence-no matter what his decision about Kenya's frontier...
...said President Kennedy. But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old, with his life nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British. For those 40 years, he was an isolated man. isolated physically on a bleak farm in New-England, isolated poetically as he slowly worked out his grindstone-plain style. Yet, as it falls to few men and almost never to poets, Robert Frost lived on to enjoy the plaudits and perquisites of immortality in his own lifetime...
...chiefs, he turned into a heavy father when acting for the mother country in relation to her offspring." There was the compulsive traveler, John Byng, who complained about every place he visited because, basically, he did not like people. One day in 1789 when he was in a particularly bleak mood, he lambasted everything about England he could think of. Says Namier: "Had this been written about France in June 1789, how much would it have been quoted as remarkable prophecy, and an explanation of what followed...
With its stupefying temperatures and bleak terrain, Britain's Aden Colony on the southwestern fringe of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the world's most unattractive pieces of real estate. But it has its value nonetheless. Between Suez and Singapore, it is the only suitable fueling and victualing station for the British navy, and 8,000 troops of Her Majesty's Middle East Command are stationed on its 75 square miles of overheated rock...