Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
...Minutes of Thought. The rise of Joseph Hirshhorn, from those bleak Brooklyn years to his start as a 17-year-old broker on the New York Curb Exchange and finally to the fortune he has made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember...
...Inheritors, by William Golding. Neanderthals battle Homo sapiens and the future looks bleak indeed in this gripping novel about the beginning of mankind...
...trudge back to the boat, push off without a word and row across the heaving water to an island several miles from shore, a cold rock whelmed in the cold waters of Japan's Inland Sea. There they take up their pails again and, sweating fiercely as the bleak dawn breaks, struggle up an almost perpendicular path to a small plateau near the summit of the island...
...meeting of the steel-nerved, a championship of far-out, far-up sport, and the finest things about it were hidden by clouds and distance. For spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...