Word: cheerlessness
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...quickly drifted to the bottom of the social hierarchy. There they remained, thanks in large part to the shortage of housing: with rental accommodations almost nonexistent and mortgages scarce, the ill-qualified immigrants who longed to settle in Jerusalem, the city of their prayers, found themselves herded instead into cheerless prefabricated tent towns, remote villages precariously close to Arab positions or the Negev wilderness. The more fortunate families that managed to stay in Jerusalem did well to find single rooms, in abandoned Arab houses. There was little work to be found and little food. Often young boys lived off what...
...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...
...half cheers! Two and three quarters? Not enough, in these cheerless times. Let's say three cheers and a quark for Head over Heels, an eccentric little comedy about what zoologists call pair bonding. The trouble with the pair on view is that only half of it, an unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that...