Word: cheerlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast-moving Eliot team took Lowell for a 13-0 ride yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. Next door, cheerless Dunster played without substitutions until the last quarter, and lost to Adams...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
Until last night, the absence of D'Oyly Carte had made 1949 a pretty cheerless spring for this Gilbert and Sullivan fan. But some devoted enthusiasts at Winthrop House and Radcliffe thought the situation intolerable, and under the direction of Sam Wilson, they have set it right with a rollicking presentation of "Trial by Jury...
...cheerless lobby of Mexico City's Hotel Ambos Mundos one night last week, General Jesús H. Alva sat stroking his huge mustache. He was reminiscing about the old days when he was one of Pancho Villa's Dorados ("golden" shock troops). As he talked, the 70-year-old general played with a wooden bullet. "Son," he said to a bystander, "they sent us these, thinking that we wouldn't be able to fight with them. That trick could not stop the Dorados...
Ancient Way. When living alone, the cells are amoebae, and impossible to distinguish from other amoebae which have never learned to cooperate. They crawl slowly at random, grazing on bacteria. When one grows large, it divides in two by the cheerless, asexual mode of multiplication for which amoebae are famous. This is the ancient way of life, before cooperation...