Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year when the deficit-ridden Venezuelan government slapped on tight new import curbs to protect its dwindling supply of dollars, the prospects for many a foreign firm doing business in Venezuela looked bleak indeed. The industrial giants with major markets in Venezuela could vault the new import wall easily enough by building Venezuelan plants-as Ford Motor Co. and several others have already done. But for foreign firms whose Venezuelan sales were too small to support a separate factory, another export market seemed about to go glimmering...
...late 1960s, a top British mathematician, Dr. John Fleming, monitors the trial run of a newly built radio telescope at bleak Bouldershaw Fell. With just these few clues, any science fiction fan knows what to expect: signals from outer space...
...wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced...
...only solution is to cluster shops together again, the way they traditionally were, and let the shopper get out and walk. Shopping centers with "pedestrian malls" proliferate across the land. But too many urban planners seem to be still thinking of the automobile, laying out their malls with bleak, wide-open spaces that provide neither pleasure for the sauntering eye nor convenience for the foot-weary shopper...
...controversial Health Center, alternately described as "bleak and raw" or "powerful and monumental...