Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer...
While the Russians staked out their bailiwick in the north, the British did beautifully for themselves in the south. Oil had been smelled, and in 1901 for $20,000 bleak-brained Shah Muzaffar-ed-Din gave an English financial adventurer named William Knox D'Arcy a 60-year monopoly to explore and exploit all Persia for petroleum except the five northern provinces in the Russian stakeout...
Kismet, etc. One of the first acts of the new Government after the 1921 ride-in to Teheran was to tear up the treaty the bleak-brained Ahmad had signed with the U.S.S.R. The Bolsheviks condemned the aggressive policy of the Tsar, promised never to interfere in Persia's internal affairs, but reserved the right to occupy it temporarily in the event another power used Persia for an attack on Soviet Russia...
Vermont's mountain winds were harnessed last week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about...
...OPACS' answers to these wails have been either "make formal application to OPM's priorities division" (which virtually means "no") or, especially where aluminum is the vital necessity, a bleak "we cannot undertake to assist you." Sometimes complainers are referred to their local Defense Contract Service organization. Rarely has this resulted in the most logical remedy: subcontracting of defense orders...