Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King-Anderson bill is scheduled to come before the powerful House Ways and Means Committee soon-and the prospects look bleak for the Administration. As of last week, the committee stood 15 to 10 against reporting the bill out, with ten Republicans and five Democrats, including Chairman Wilbur Mills, opposed to the measure. Only a change of heart by Arkansas' Mills figures to get the bill through-and Mills has already resisted all sorts of Administration pressures, including frequent phone calls from President Kennedy and political action by Administration followers back home...
Dressed-Up Record. Under the national income system, the Administration's fiscal record does not look nearly so bleak -or so inflationary-as it does under the administrative budget. By January of this year, total Government receipts under the national income budget were running at an annual rate of $103.2 billion, and total expenditures at $105.2 billion. Thus, the federal deficit melts to $2 billion under national income accounting, and by the end of fiscal 1962 may be as little as $500 million. Far from showing up the Administration as a profligate, the national income system indicates that during...
...almost killed, "and between two groups that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." After weaving his way through these Civil War writings, on which he has worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes's. But in stripping the North of its moral pretensions, he may have trimmed the truth as well. He lumps abolitionists with slaveholders, though, as Historian Oscar Handlin remarked, "There is surely a difference between being a fanatic for freedom and being a fanatic for slavery...
...wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born in 1933. Son of a concert singer and a geologist father. Zhenya spent his early childhood in the old quarter of Moscow. There he lived with his gifted, handsome mother Zinaida and her father, a grizzled artilleryman who was a lieutenant...
Died. Sir Philip Gibbs, 84, who in 1914 became one of Fleet Street's first accredited war correspondents, was knighted for his dashing, idealistic dispatches from the trenches, spent the postwar years writing optimistic books on world peace and in 1939 returned to war corresponding with the bleak sigh: "Has it been 21 years or seven days' leave?"; of pneumonia; in London...