Word: cheerlessly
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...Grubby & Cheerless. Ho Chi Minh is totally dependent on outside aid. Last week he announced a $2,500,000 grant from tiny Bulgaria and a Czechoslovakian offer to build him four new factories. On his own, he has not been able to lift his economy above the subsistence level...
Khrushchev & Co. landed at a dilapidated East River pier in a soaking downpour at a reception that was equally cheerless.* Apart from a few score welcoming members of Communist legations (who make a claque for the newsreels back home), he found himself surrounded by cordons of city police and special security details, the advance guard of an army of 8,000 men who were deployed through Manhattan on the most elaborate job of protection the U.S. has ever seen...
...insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter evoked is hollow; the comedy is as cheerless as the triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch...
...remote sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Dhofar Cities Service Petroleum Corp. was punching dry holes all over the sere, cheerless wastes, but was still hopeful of hitting a gusher...
Arming himself with "almost anything I can get my hands on," Marshall sat in his cheerless Piccadilly Hotel room poring over the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the constitutions of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanganyika. Although he has appeared often and successfully to argue Negro causes before the U.S. Supreme Court, Marshall is faced with one difficulty: he has had no experience of British law. His solution: to draft the constitution in U.S. legal terms and then consult the Colonial Office, which will "translate" it into the proper British terminology...