Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain came down in sheets and the entire team came down with colds, but in the bleak gloominess of an October Saturday in Providence a new era dawned for Radcliffe athletics when a pioneering women's cross-country team chalked up its first victory ever by finishing 1-2-3-4 against Brown...
Describing the two-party system as "deteriorated," Christopher Arterton, assistant professor of political science at Yale, said the election results will make it hard for the Republican party to effectively voice alternatives to Democratic policy "for a bleak four years," until a leader emerges in the next convention...
...visited Howard and that he struck me as more intelligent than Mo Udall; but I was never a Carter supporter. In fact, I supported Fred Harris early in the primaries and later worked for Udall during the Massachusetts primary campaign, in part because Harris's prospects looked pretty bleak. Carter was never more than my third or fourth choice for the Democratic nomination, and by the time of the convention, there was no way I was going to vote for Mr. "Ethnic Purity...
...with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded him to cast himself as a doomsayer, as "Cassandra-Celine," who in 1939 gleefully harangued his friends with prophecies of war: "Scrape out your entrails, my heroes! Come and have your breasts stuffed, my brave ones...
Whitlock describes that period between 1972 and 1974 as a bleak one at Harvard, when students were caught up in feverish competition. Not that students don't worry about grades now, he points out; but between '74 and '72, he says, students seemed terribly afraid of failure. They already felt they had failed as revolutionaries by getting out of politics, he says, and they could not tell what would happen to them if they also failed in getting into professional schools...