Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Relieved of Duty. Though most of Japan's aged continue to live with their children, particularly in rural areas, many others have been shunted into bleak housing projects or crowded nursing homes. "Both my sons have one-room homes and are married," explains Mrs. Take Kikuchi, a diminutive widow of 70, who lives in a nursing home on the outskirts of Tokyo. "I shuttled endlessly between them, but at last the message was so deafening that I had to leave them and come here." Adds Kotaro Uchida, 88, a retired Tokyo printer: "My son after the war told...
...land itself, in the words of an old chronicler, was "lean, hungry and waste." Instead of houses and barns, sinister cut-stone towers studded bleak slopes, along with no less sinister place names-Foul Play Know, Dour Hill, Blackhaggs, Foulmire Heights. Here on the border between England and Scotland, year after terrible year, the great "riding families"-Armstrongs, Scotts, Maxwells, Grahams, Johnstones, Elliots, Fenwicks and others-spent most of their time committing "innumerabil slauchteris, fyre raisingis, herschipps and detestabil enormities...
Neither Dunster nor Adams occupies an enviable position, both teams having made poor showings this winter. Dunster, for instance, lost all its swim meets and all its basketball games. Adams had only one bright spot in a generally bleak winter, placing first in swimming with an undefeated record...
...self-righteousness that grew out of the freedom rides of Selma and Birmingham. "The answer," my sister and her friends were told, "is blowin' in the wind." "The times, they are a-changin'." The message of the music was: Don't give up; we're winning. Today may look bleak, but "see what tomorrow brings...
Beginning each May, Rudolph's charges spend five months in "dry training": calisthenics, running and bicycling. Then they hit the road for West Allis, Wis., and the only Olympic-sized artificial rink in the U.S. Traveling in a car pool run by their parents, they visit the bleak Wisconsin state fairgrounds every day for six straight months, spending three hours a day on the ice and three hours in transit...