Word: cheerlessness
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...Cheerless Prospect...
...long inland arm of San Francisco Bay the ships came to the naval magazine at Port Chicago, a cheerless town sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
...Donald Derby Davis gave up a plan for duck hunting in Canada and flew to Washington to begin struggling with the most difficult problems that plague a Washington newcomer-telephones and secretaries-bolstering his morale the while with the cheerless thought that "you cannot ignore such a call...
...then had run out of money or had forgotten what it was he had intended to build in the places his crews had wrecked. By far the greater part of each of the cities remains, of course, undamaged. In the wet and grimy streets life goes on, busy and cheerless...
Washington reporters have something new to goggle at. It is a transformation in Army's press section. A month ago it was a hole-in-the-wall bureau, cheerless in appearance, raggedly staffed, desultory in action. Then, from Fort Bliss came short, dark Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson to take over. Last week Army's press section appeared well on its way to becoming an efficient organ for supplying the public with military information...