Word: cheerlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
...Then There Were None (20th Century-Fox), a whodunit that concentrates on atmosphere, is more sultry than chilling. Its ten shady-looking characters are herded off to a soggy, cheerless house-party on a windswept little island. The reason for this melancholy get-together is soon apparent: each of the guests has gone unpunished for one or more crimes, and the anonymous host has decided to impose rough-&-ready justice on his own. What happens from then on is menacingly suggested by the title...
Darkness & Fog. After their capture, they had lived in a cheerless, timeless, maddening limbo. They were occasionally moved from prison to prison. Nielsen was court-martialed, condemned to death, reprieved. That, at least, was exciting. Otherwise, there had been nothing to do. nothing to read, no mail, no Red Cross packages. Said Nielsen: "Nothing is the hardest thing in the world...
...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...