Word: cheerless
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...evacuees Poston (a conglomeration of cheerless wooden barracks on the unshaded desert) seemed like a concentration camp. The sun was cruel; dust was everywhere. The hospital had little medicine, food was often badly cooked; there was overcrowding, lack of privacy, discomfort. The camp's overworked administrative staff had been thrown together as hastily as the buildings...
That day Army trucks ground up the drive, unloaded hundreds of empty boxes. Packers tramped into the rooms. Servants began emptying drawers and cup boards. The Executive Mansion's normal order was lost in cheerless confusion and lights burned late at night...
...most of this mass of humanity there would be long, cheerless months, even years ahead before they could "open the rusted doors with the rusted keys." The physical task of moving the 15,500,000 foreign civilians and war prisoners out of Germany would have to await peace and some kind of order. In Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere, thousands of earlier refugees awaited repatriation. But sooner or later they would get back; sooner or later political Europe would feel their impact...
...Salvador inaugurated last week its new, non-popular President, mummy-faced General Salvador Castaneda Castro, chosen in a one-candidate election. The crowds in the streets were small and cheerless. Beside the new President stood the savage little Dictator, outgoing President Osmin Aguirre...
Violinist-Executioner. Karski went out in the rainy, cheerless afternoon to the apartment, six blocks away, of an old friend from his days at Lwow University. There Karski had belonged to an association that lectured to the peasants on literature, history, hygiene. The peasants were mildly interested in Karski's lectures. But they loved the intense, gifted, frail young high-school student who went with him and played the violin after his talk. This was Dziepatowski. He was now an executioner for the underground...