Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against this bleak backdrop, there would appear to be only one route to rejuvenation for the afflicted fans: football magazines, the esteemed journals which hit newsstands in the early fall and offer companionship for an entire season...
These are bleak times for Harvard undergraduates While our friends at other colleges frolic on vocation or settle themselves in for a new term, the weeks ahead hold only anxiety and depression, as we scowl away in a gloomy series of library carrels...
...furniture and a central heating system. Exulted Smith: "Dorothy's story has tugged at the heartstrings of America." But the Ridgways were embarrassed; they pointed out that Parade had misrepresented their neighborhood as Roanoke's poorest, and insisted that their home was not, as Parade depicted it, "bleak." Further, Dorothy's check is augmented by Medicaid, and her parents receive public assistance totaling about $500 more a month; gifts may imperil the family's eligibility for relief. Said Mary Ridgway: "Others are worse off than us. I do not want people to think Dorothy was begging...
...Bleak times lie ahead, For the time being. Crimson readers can string themselves along on artificial support, but soon our supply will run out. The methadone of "Bloom County" and "Funky Winkerbean" may alleviate the ordeal on some mornings: flashbacks from old "Doonesbury" collections may bring relief on others...
...quarter earnings. The news reverberated through Wall Street. Analysts began recalculating profit estimates of the best-known games manufacturers, trying to divine whether the Atari setback had more cosmic implications. By week's end no one was quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game Over" for the popular amusements. But it seemed clear that video-game makers would no longer be able to rack up record profits with the ease of a twelve-year-old joystick junkie who stars...