Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the week there were more than 200 such incidents. Then came last Sunday and Newry. And next Sunday? One of the bleakest realities of Ulster now is that almost every week end can produce yet another Bloody Sunday - as long as the marches go on and the troops are there and the gun men are seeking revenge...
TIRANA (pop. 190,000) is probably the bleakest capital in the world. It is a city of dilapidated houses of pale red brick sometimes trimmed in yellow or faded blue, and ramshackle brick apartment buildings, of wooden street-corner stalls selling fruits, soft drinks and sweets, and of a few shops that feature more slogans than merchandise. The cafes are eternally packed with workers in shirtsleeves who sip Turkish coffee and pass the time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite...
...stern, arrogant men. "He has a human quality I value very much," a colleague at the Center for International Affaris said recently. "There's a deep melancholy about him, and a sense that you're dealing with a guy who has known unlimited tragedy and seen some of the bleakest parts of the human landscape...
...bleakest landscape in the U.S. can be found where miners have torn away the earth's surface to get at coal deposits. Huge piles of gray debris, aptly called "orphan soil banks," stand like gravestones over land so scarred and acidic that only rodents can live there. The sight is not rare. Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output. They have already ripped up more than 1,800,000 acres. By 1980, if present trends continue...
...down for eight feet or so through an unmodulated expanse of plain color. When the paintings were shown in 1950 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, reactions ranged from negative to outrage. "You're a threat to us all," exclaimed one artist. What followed were perhaps Newman's bleakest years...