Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racket, jump to the thought that every successful man has his own racket, move on to the natural conclusion that business is a racket, politics a racket, government a racket, ideals a racket, organizations a racket, religion a racket, and so, with inexorable logic, reach the final bleak conviction that life itself...
...bleak, windy plateau of Tibet-some 463,000 square miles, with an average altitude of 16,000 feet-is one of the coldest places in the world. For all its long history, it is also one of the most benighted. Tibet is one of the world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher...
...clock of bleak Winton Green Prison in Birmingham chimed 9. A milk delivery cart rattled down the street outside the prison walls, where 500 persons stood shivering in a cold Midlands...
...factor of all his bindle stiffs, made their loneliness as vast as the western mountains they work among, but made them express it only in two-syllable language as mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result was no U. S. The Lower Depths, but a bleak, unhappy little tale with a powerful climax, some of whose tenseness was due to a nervous feeling that if Author Steinbeck made one false step he would flop off his tightrope...
...Crimson cage picture, however, is not a bleak as might be imagined, because the young squad refused to crack at any time before the amazing Dartmouth marksmanship display, and several of the Feslermen besides Lutz showed to advantage. The team played as carefully as possible and actually controlled the ball...