Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Columbia, things were bleak. The Crimson was in the game until the final 30 seconds, and with a modicum of play as good as they demonstrated against Cornell they could have won it easily...
Nikita's scheme flopped. There was not enough rainfall, and the pioneers did not take to tractor life on the bleak frontier...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...
...amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats to chuff through bleak coulees 365 miles into the interior of Washington...
Since Von Hassel needs several weeks to wind up his job as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, the bleak state bordering on Denmark, there was a comic confusion about who would fill the job until he arrives in Bonn. No one seemed able to decide. At first everyone assumed that Strauss's former No. 2 man in the ministry would have the interim job, but an official spokesman named another man for the job. At last came the baffling declaration that burly Franz Josef Strauss himself would return to the Defense post until Von Hassel could take over...