Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragic way. They, along with eight civilian crew members, were killed in the worst military air disaster ever. Headed home for the holidays to Fort Campbell, Ky., after six months of multinational peacekeeping duties in the hot winds of the Sinai Peninsula, the troopers died in the bleak brush and deep chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then smashed, tail first, into a small hill, disintegrating in flames about a half-mile from...
...SNOW'S a mere dusting, the sky's a bleak gray And finals are just a short four weeks away; The coffee's been flowing, the ashtray o'erflows And how it will end only the Senior Tutor knows. But it's time, tired readers; it's that time of year To close all the books, and spread some good cheer: Shut off the typewriter, sit back and relax As out come our presents, and down swings the axe. Your papers are due, your plane leaves at three, But first we'll reveal what lies under our tree. For before...
...nots, a prospect that until now has been avoided by the majority of Americans. Socially, Americans remain indifferent to the plight of the disadvantaged. National service address this indifference by placing the means of social change in the hands of those who will most need mutual interaction in the bleak economic future and who are best able to interact across the ranks of society, the American youth...
...days later the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sounded a similarly bleak note. The panel released a report predicting that the Marcos regime could fall in three years. The committee chairman, Republican Senator David Durenburger of Minnesota, went so far as to call on Marcos to step down. "Our patience is running out," added Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. "I don't think President Marcos has gotten the word...
Despite that bravura performance, the bleak outlook for the Marcos regime remained unchanged. "It's as if the central nervous system has broken down," said a U.S. policymaker. "Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces." The situation did little to convince the Reagan Administration that Marcos could meet what has emerged as the principal U.S. demands: military reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical...