Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know I shouldn't, but I simply must speak. I don't like this place. Look at the landscape; doesn't it bother you at all? All those bare, bleak rocks...the sand...
...over it. With torches they set fire to the whole lot of goods, while women shrieked: "What a waste!" When the bonfire had died on White Sand Beach near Seoul last week, $20,000 in small luxuries had been destroyed. Since then the brightest lights on Korea's bleak landscape are from bonfires: a $100,000 blaze in Pusan, a $40,000 fire in Masan. Other fires are due in Seoul until $230,000 in confiscated goods are destroyed...
...Needs It? Most New Yorkers, notably apathetic in matters of civic pride, regard with horror the prospect of visiting hordes who will turn the city's already crowded subways and buses into rolling sardine cans. Financiers, remembering the bleak profit history of the 1939 fair, can scarcely be delirious over the prospect of investing in a new one. Still, the World's Fair of 1964-65 Corp. is confident that everybody does indeed need it-notably, New York's merchants and innkeepers. But with an uneasy 700-odd days left in which to line up exhibitors, foreign...
...South Korea's tough ruler. General Park, who reviews all final verdicts of capital punishment. So far, 16 men have been sentenced to death on charges of opposing last year's revolution; seven of them have gone to the scaffold in Seoul's bleak So-daemun prison...
...have never demanded an outstanding newspaper, will complain either about the loss of two papers or the caliber of the survivors. The chief mourners last week were the staffs of the two foundered dailies-400 on the Mirror, 1,000 on the Examiner-who, with scant notice, faced the bleak prospect of looking for other jobs in a diminished market. The Chandlers were ordering the dismissal of a handful of Times staffers to make room for the handful of Mirror people marked for salvage. Hearst hastily formed an "employment exchange" which was designed to land a few Examiner hands...