Word: cheerlessness
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...toughest and least rewarding jobs: chief of staff of an embattled, imperiled White House, where almost every day brings another revelation, another shift in a defensive strategy that seems only to lose. For a 49-year-old former four-star general who likes to win, it is a cheerless prospect. In the view of many, Haig has nowhere to go but down, as his own reputation becomes ever more identified with that of the White House. In the end, he may never achieve the role in American life for which his gifts, character and ambition seemed to equip...
...lowered the volume and agreed to change the direction of the speakers in order to disperse the sound. It could not be said that the church lacked proper regard for the rights of its neighbors. More widely adopted, however, the city's ordinance could make for a rather cheerless Christmas. Ridder has agreed that the bells will chime only five to eight minutes instead of the 18-minute Thanksgiving toll. "We don't want to be a nuisance," he says. "On the other hand, the church ought to be able to indicate its presence in a community. There...
...that we can suspect it stems from the balmy brain of some unregenerate cynic, if not from some sycophant claquer of the Agnew stripe. Whoever thought it up fails to realize that so high an honor could have its seamy side, too. Mr. Nixon would find himself in a cheerless company along with men of thought, science, literature, above all, integrity, where plastic "sincerities" and windy rhetoric are not properly appreciated. He would be out of his element...
Three surveys of corporate hiring plans show that prospects for June graduates are up significantly this year. The outlook for aspiring teachers is still cheerless, but newly minted engineers will be sought almost as avidly as All-America fullbacks. The College Placement Council of Bethlehem, Pa., surveyed 672 corporations and found that job offers would be up 15% this year for recipients of bachelor's degrees, 22% for holders of master's degrees and 20% for Ph.D.s. John Shingleton, director of the Michigan State University placement bureau, predicts that there will be a strong market for most skills...
Strauss's jovial persona is the kind of tonic the Democrats need in an otherwise cheerless time. Strauss, 54, is the striving son of a Texas dry-goods merchant. He has been an adept moneymaker both for himself and the Democrats; he is also a man who can-and often does-call someone a "sonabitch" without having to smile. It is the other person, in fact, who smiles or even laughs...