Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
...sides, the attack on amateur athletics continues. And the conclusion is rapidly becoming inescapable: the future of amateur sports in this country is exceedingly bleak...
Ravenel's touchdown gave him 26 points for three Harvard-Yale games and placed him third behind Eddie Mahan and Charlie Brickley in all-time series scoring. It was some small consolation for Charlie and for Harvard fans on this generally bleak Saturday.Crimson end BOB BOYDA (left) sits on bench while secod team sees action on field. Both the Crimson and Yale virtually emptied their benches at the end of the game, with the varsity's lone touchdown coming with Charlie Ravenel quarterbacking a team composed chiefly of third stringers...
...football season had been a bleak one for California State Polytechnic College, the pride of the California mission city of San Luis Obispo-five games lost and only one victory. All the same, an adventurous excitement built up as the squad got ready for its one big faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...
...bleak cell at a Tokyo juvenile detention home one night last week, a mop-haired teenager mixed a palmful of tooth powder with a few drops of water and scrawled a message on the wall: "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!'' Then Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived...