Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obscurely, almost as if its diminished pulse responded to a more rapid pulse within the earth, the life of Nanty Glo began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes...
From most of the U.S. came the same bleak news: the meat situation was terrible, was fast becoming desperate. Honest butchers had only a scaleful of high-grade cuts, black markets were growing like a yearling, meat-hungry citizens paid outrageous prices-and practically nobody knew what to do. Harried Washington officials last week guessed that up to 20% of all livestock slaughtered is going to black-marketers; in New York City alone illegal meat sales total about $2,500,000 weekly...
...Perelman's life reads like a picaresque novel. It began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended...
Christmas,*the old Russian Christmas, was coming in a week, but there would be no celebration. It was a bleak new year that Veronika and nearly 200 million other Soviet citizens faced-cold, hunger and suffering...
...Admiral Darlan. Astute, pro-Vichy General Auguste Nogues, as Resident General of Morocco, held in his hands the power to keep quiet or arouse the Arab tribes. If he said the wrong words, 60.000 Allied soldiers might have to fight a major military campaign in Morocco's bleak and rocky hills. But Nogues said the right words again. He agreed to recognize General Giraud as the new authority...