Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post Office Department in 1971, has had money problems ever since it was created. Today, the woes of the service have reached such alarming proportions that postal officials in Washington are privately discussing the possibility of an outright financial collapse in a year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send and receive their mail, Bailar warned, "we are heading for potential disaster...
...mask of success is a deception because behind it is hidden a very terrible face." At his bleakest moments, he swears that had he known where acting would lead him, he would have become an engineer. "Nonsense," says Lina Wertmuller. "Giancarlo was born to be an actor. He was born to work at my side. And I was born to work at his. Our fates are sealed...
President Ford submitted to Congress yesterday the bleakest State of the Union message in decades, urging massive tax cuts, a red-ink budget and higher fuel costs to overcome recession and energy shortages...
With no settlement of their six-month agony in sight, Cypriots are living through the bleakest, most bitter winter in memory. Though there have been losses and atrocities on both sides, the Greek Cypriots, who make up 80% of the island's population, have suffered the most. Terrified by reports of mass shootings and rapes by Turkish troops advancing in the north last July, some 200,000 Greek Cypriots fled toward the British base area of Dhekelia on Cyprus' southern coast. The more fortunate were able to squeeze into the homes of relatives, but nearly...
These are the ingredients of a unique new German bimonthly, Das Dritte Reich (The Third Reich). Its technique is that of a newsmagazine covering contemporary events. Its stated purpose: to give Germans, particularly younger people, a vivid account of their nation's bleakest years...