Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Losing Game." Taylor has painted a bleak picture of the U.S. military stance: "We have lost our former atomic monopoly. We are probably inferior to the U.S.S.R. in numbers of ballistic missiles...
...descent, Kemal was five years old when his father was murdered by an enemy while kneeling beside his son in the mosque. The experience left Kemal with a stammer, which he cured by chanting the traditional songs of Turkish troubadours. This folk poetry glows in his description of the bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great...
...gets it, but it is scarcely a plausible motivation for the book-length relationship between the two men. The ordeals of Father Kennedy's priesthood-"bleak moods" leading to compulsive drinking, as well as his rehabilitation-are equally unconvincing. Despite these lapses in motivation, Author O'Connor sympathetically conveys much of the priest's lot-the repetitions, the qualms, the drudgeries, the temptations, the loneliness, all adding up to a daily testing not glimpsed in the stereotypes of the Barry Fitzgerald-Bing Crosby order...
...same question had come up hundreds of times since the final count was finished on that bleak November day. And each time, Richard Nixon gave the same answer: "I'm not a candidate...
...half-mile run, captain Fred Howard is a slight favorite, although he will probably run either the quarter mile or mile first. But the sprints and the hurdles look bleak for the Crimson...