Word: cheerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events in the Dr. Strangelove world of nukes and launchers seem to be moving toward a final shape that has stunned the Pentagon, the industrial complex that builds the military's hardware and the defense experts of Congress. Subterranean shock waves came last week from the secret and cheerless Room 31074 in the Pentagon. There Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, revealed a new plan to the special committee, headed by Nobel Physicist Charles Townes, that is assigned to find a satisfactory MX launching system. The session was chaotic. Most of the committee...
...preserving our little stock of provisions less and less probable. At 1 p.m. a heavy sea broke into our boat filling it half full of water and saturating our stock of bread with salt water. The bread being our only dependence gave to us on the whole rather a cheerless prospect. We this day arranged our allowance of food and water, and gave it out for the first time. It consisted in one cake of biscuit and a pint of water to each man, for the 24 hours...
...surveys bear out the belief of most analysts that this is a particularly cheerless presidential race, with Americans more often voting against candidates than for them. Although a majority of the people interviewed expect Carter and Reagan to be their parties' nominees this summer, 58% of them wish that there were an acceptable alternative. Furthermore, nearly half of the people who say they would vote for Carter would do so without enthusiasm, indicating that his support is even softer than the numbers demonstrate...