Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quietly Sir Stafford outlined the bleakest prospect yet conceded by a Labor Minister-a revolution in Britain's internal economy. In cold figures and concrete decisions, he laid down a program for 152 British industries: "Export...
...greatness of this country," Payne observes, "is terrifying. [China is a nation] swiftly changing and terribly virile . . . where the metal is molten and the people are searching for new gods, or the old gods transformed into a more virile strength. . . ." Through the diary he kept during the bleakest years (1941-44) of China's war, the author comes back again & again to this thought - sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse...
...terms of the total Allied naval strength available in the combat area, it was a worse disaster than Pearl Harbor. Bleakest fact of all: the known Japanese losses in no way compensated for the Allied losses. The Navy carefully qualified its report that one Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were probably sunk, two other cruisers and three destroyers may have been put out of action. At best, the score was 13 to 7, the wrong way, in the battle of Java...