Word: cheerlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Britons, who like to spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...