Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits and prominence. No more. The supreme irony is that at a time when people of all political persuasions are calling for the managerial skills that the Republicans possess, the Grand Old Party must fight for its life. At least the Republicans can read a balance sheet. Surely those bleak figures were what roused President Ford to such heights in his acceptance speech and sent the Republicans off with new hope on their mission of self-preservation...
...world" is what some of the American guards call Checkpoint Three. It is located at the southern end of the Bridge of No Return, over which North and South Korean prisoners were exchanged as part of the agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. Near by stands the bleak compound of Quonset huts and wooden buildings where the LJ.N. and North Korean commands hold their Military Armistice Commission meetings...
From the start, both his times and his temperament have cast shadows across Sevareid, the all-American believer in simple faiths, decent instincts and great men. A cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...
...outlook may not be all that bleak. Last year Israel had only 1.4 murders per 100,000; the U.S. had 9.7 and France 2.0. Moreover, most Israeli criminals are freelancers; there is no "mob." Rosolio also likes to point to one of his most potent weapons: Israel's geography. "We are in effect an island," he says. "The criminal knows that he cannot escape...
...view of man, once regarded as intolerably bleak, now seems distressingly up-to-date...