Word: bleak
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...mountain village of Yole was a bleak place until a giant, broken clipper ship mysteriously appeared in the town's little lake. How it got there and what would happen if the people of Yole rebuilt it are the secrets at the center of the novel Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats, by TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger. Author of several other books including the best seller Apollo 13, Kluger is making his first venture into young-adult fiction. Publishers Weekly calls the book "a fully imagined fantasy with a twist of magic...
When Motala the elephant stepped on a land mine eight years ago in Thailand, her prospects were bleak. Veterinarians were forced to amputate what was left of her mangled foot and part of her leg. The operation saved her life but left her hobbling around on only three legs for the better part of six years. Finally, in 2005 surgeons at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand, designed a 22-lb. (10 kg) shoelike prosthetic foot that is little more than a canvas sack filled with sawdust and held in place by a giant sling...
...while the security situation in Iraq has arguably improved, the political side has deteriorated to its worst state of disarray since Maliki took office. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, speaking to reporters Tuesday in the Green Zone, was blunt in his bleak assessment. "Progress on national level issues has been extremely disappointing and frustrating to all concerned - to us, to Iraqis, to the Iraqi leadership itself," said Crocker, who echoed rising voices of discontent in Washington. "Our support is not a blank check...
...eviction he had a mid-ranking officer whose family was among those being moved out. "I let him go back and help his family," he says. Many religious Zionist soldiers were never disciplined when they called in sick during the February 2006 operation to remove nine families from a bleak hilltop known as Amona...
...main interest is determining whether his and Marion's immune systems are a good match - something they can rely on over a relationship's long haul. But still, there's something pestiferous about those ubiquitous guys. And when Marion hysterically denounces one of them in a crowded restaurant, their bleak idyll comes to a crisis. It does not help that visiting Jim Morrison's grave in Pere Lachaise is a turn-off for him (he's more of a Val Kilmer fan) or that French condoms are too small...