Word: cheerlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Derby Davis gave up a plan for duck hunting in Canada and flew to Washington to begin struggling with the most difficult problems that plague a Washington newcomer-telephones and secretaries-bolstering his morale the while with the cheerless thought that "you cannot ignore such a call...
...then had run out of money or had forgotten what it was he had intended to build in the places his crews had wrecked. By far the greater part of each of the cities remains, of course, undamaged. In the wet and grimy streets life goes on, busy and cheerless...
Washington reporters have something new to goggle at. It is a transformation in Army's press section. A month ago it was a hole-in-the-wall bureau, cheerless in appearance, raggedly staffed, desultory in action. Then, from Fort Bliss came short, dark Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson to take over. Last week Army's press section appeared well on its way to becoming an efficient organ for supplying the public with military information...
...cold, cheerless onetime health resort which is now the capital of unoccupied France, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last week proceeded with the construction of a state designed to suit both him and Adolf Hitler. After weeks of shuffling with names, Chief of State Petain announced the personnel of his National Council, a consultative chamber with a corporative look about it. Sixty-eight of the 188 members were onetime members of Parliament-Rightists and renegade Leftists. The rest included industrialists, shipowners, churchmen, war veterans, scientists, artists, artisans, miners, seamen, one Negro...
...awaited the coming of U. S. Ambassador William Daniel Leahy. It piled in high drifts in the nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol of the France that has lain half-paralyzed ever since her defeat...