Word: bleak
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...more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed him to be less than inspiring. Africa's news was bleak. The world awoke this year to the unspeakable holocaust AIDS is wreaking there, a calamity that overshadowed the fights and famines already blighting the continent...
...were able to make a couple of plays when it looked a little bleak," said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan. "I give our guys a lot of credit for keeping their poise. It's very easy to lose your poise and think the game was over with less than 20 seconds to go. But they didn't. They hung in there and two guys made big plays...
...have long had reason to believe that the Mars we see today is not the Mars that once was. That bleak, freeze-dried world, most planetary scientists agree, was once a warm, wet place, running with rivers and sloshing with seas or oceans. None of that water remains, of course, but the riverbeds and basins stamped in the surface offer powerful arguments that it was there in abundance...
...MCAS picture looks bleak now. But just three years ago, Cambridge was the center of attention when the state announced the results of the very first MCAS tests...
...example, was molded by the Great Depression. Although he was a witty, optimistic man, a cold wind blew sometimes from the back of his biography - the knowledge that the world could collapse. Even as he prospered later, the '30s of his boyhood whistled thinly through his mind. The bleak years gave him an ambience of expectation about life and its dangers...