Word: cheerlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion," Eliot predicted, "will foster powerfully a virtue which is comparatively new in the world -the love of truth and the passion for seeking it. And the truth will progressively make men free . . . When dwellers in a slum suffer the familiar evils caused by overcrowding, impure food and cheerless labor, the modern true believers contend against the sources of such misery by providing public baths, playgrounds, wider and cleaner streets, better dwellings and more effective schools-that is, they attack the sources of physical and moral evil...
...airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town of any size, is three hours away by slow train. Three-day-old newspapers, and long, morose drinks of potent Newfoundland "screech" (rum) at the crowded bar* are the chief available diversions from the monotony of staring at the cheerless landscape...
Although a professor of chemistry, Richardson is best known for his two volume history of Dartmouth which earned him the title of "Dartmouth's Morison." Also nicknamed "cheerless" because of his traditional dry humor which became legendary, he took sick early this fall before the term began...
Lippold's pylon and his ideas about it are among the few cheerful things to turn up so far in what looks like a remarkably cheerless new year. There is something very ingratiating about, a man who can detach himself from reality in a world were reality is terribly present in every newspaper, a world which might be far better off if it stopped worrying about atomic piles and concentrated on putting up pylons. Lippold asks that his sculpture get an annual polishing. It is an undemanding request in what has become a frighteningly demanding world, and we hope...
...grounds toward the cemeteries. In the bright sunlight at the Southern General cemetery, not far from the flower-heaped grave of Venezuela's murdered President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, twelve coffins were lowered into one large grave, others into family plots. Then, as the parents turned away to their cheerless Christmas, Padre Vélaz flew back to the classrooms of the Colegio...