Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aegean island of Samos, home of Pythagoras and Aristarchus, explaining the first stirrings of Greek scientific prowess. At another moment, he is strolling through the venerable Cavendish Laboratories of England's Cambridge University, recounting the birth of modern atomic physics. At still another, he is standing in the bleak wastes of Death Valley, discussing the efforts of the Viking landers to find living things on Mars. Alas, concedes Sagan, they have found no sure trace of life?...
...myths continue to animate his fiction. Bradbury's work may vary with his mood, ranging from bleak to bright. But his stories rarely fail to reinforce a classic piece of American mythology: that a boy from a small Midwestern town can make it in America-without becoming an adult...
Despite that bleak figure, Hispanic immigrants continue to settle in the city, at a rate of about 600 per year, Miranda says. The report on the Hispanic population shows that most immigrants come directly to Cambridge from their native countries, but that was not the case with earlier immigrants. They arrived in New York City, and gradually filtered into Connecticut and Springfield before settling in Boston or Cambridge...
Tucking Tail and Running Claude ("Buddy") Leach's political future looked bleak indeed after he narrowly won his congressional seat in Louisiana's Fourth District two years ago. He was subsequently indicted for buying votes in both the primary and general elections. A total of 35 people have been convicted in the scandal, including the mayor of Leach's home town of Leesville, but Leach was acquitted...
...surrender of our energy future ... of our economic future ... service cuts for the poor and massive inflation for everyone." Carter's speech sounded more like a realistic assessment of the present than a "bleak Republican future...