Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of Big Foot Trail, some 45 miles west of Wounded Knee, S.D., a yellow, slightly faded billboard stands frozen against the bleak Dakota horizon. "45 miles to Wounded Knee," the billboard screams. "The historic site and mass grave of the last battle between the Indian and the white...
...clear attempt to kill me." He decreed a state of emergency, fired his air force chief for negligence, rounded up scores of the usual suspects and placed about 20 of Sihanouk's relatives under house arrest. In Washington, officials gloomily described the situation in terms ranging from bleak and depressing to awful...
...Fertile Crescent region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and have long been considered the first civilized cultures. Equally intriguing, some of the artifacts found near Shahdad are so similar to those from Elam that archaeologists suspect that trade flowed regularly between the two communities. Despite the bleak surroundings, the newly discovered settlement was well situated for a mercantile role. Built on a plain known since ancient days as Xabis, it sits astride the principal trade routes between northern Iran and the Persian Gulf...
...need for mutual understanding will become even more critical because of the bleak outlook for U.S.-Japan trade relations. Most of Japan's present imports from the United States are raw materials and foodstuffs. Once the China market develops, Japan may find it more profitable to substitute imports of primary goods from China for those from the United States. Japan and the U.S. will also be rivals in selling manufactured goods to the Chinese. Therefore, conditions in the China market will further complicate the U.S.-Japan trade relationship...
...rooms there were small, bleak and lighted by clumsy bronze, sphinx-shaped gas jets. The floors were filthy and uncarpeted, furnished with nothing save a piano out of tune from dampness and abuse. By 1888, however the Club and Theatricals occupied its present quarters at 12 Holyoke St. with its spacious rooms and ample theater...