Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against that bleak landscape, the mood of the nation emerged as a mixture of hopeful disbelief and gathering anxiety. Two conflicting notions are battling it out in people's heads: the Great American Dream of owning a home full of appliances and a garage full of cars, and the dawning irony of not being able to use them at will. An Atlanta housewife expressed the new ambivalence: "I just can't believe it's going to be that bad. But I've never seen more depressed people. It's finally beginning to sink in that...
...Catholics' chill and poignant ending, the abbot capitulates to Rome, then has to repair the shattered faith of his charges by leading them in prayer, a communal task he has long avoided. He knows, as he begins to pray, that the action will plunge his bleak but compassionate soul into an endless spiritual void. As the camera closes in on Howard's tortured, searching eyes, it captures all the anguish of the dark night of the Soul...
...fuel shortage may seriously cripple the ski industry this winter, but anyone who has entertained the thought of investing in ski equipment for Christmas should not be swayed by this bleak prospect. Even if the dearth of fuel closes your favorite resort or prevents you from getting to the slopes very often this season, you would do well to check out the Boston ski shops just the same...
...years of public opinion research, I have never seen so bleak an outlook by the people," Harris said...
...case "means that any judge can order a newspaper not to publish any news items, and the newspaper must obey that gag for as long as it takes to appeal. By that time the item may no longer be newsworthy." The dispute's background bears out that bleak interpretation. In 1971 Federal District Judge E. Gordon West ordered journalists covering the public hearing of a conspiracy case against a local civil rights leader not to write about he proceeding. West fined Adams and Dickinson $300 each when they ignored his directive, issued, he said, "to avoid undue publicity...