Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Wilson's most frustrating week since last July's sterling crisis - and it was, in fact, a pretty dismal week for British diplomacy in general. Having failed in his peacemaking attempt with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Wilson flew off to Bonn with Foreign Secretary George Brown on what appeared to be a much simpler task: to try to persuade the West Germans to help Britain gain entry to the European Common Market. Since the West Germans already are on record as favoring British entry, Wilson hoped that he could induce Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his colleagues...
Franquemont finally broke the dismal string with a squeaking 6-5 victory over Bob Waligunda. It took two points in riding time for Franquemont to pull out the decision...
...team--one ray of light in an otherwise dismal sports winter for Harvard--has already avenged another of last year's non-Ivy losses with a victory over Rutgers last Friday...
...able "to compete successfully for any future aerospace program." Lewis, a Georgia Tech-educated aeronautical engineer who will move into Douglas as soon as the merger is final, last week got an idea of the size of his job. The company did not even match Donald Jr.'s dismal prediction last July that fiscal 1966 "earnings, if any, would be nominal." It announced a $27 million loss...
...thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation is dismal. Only CERN, the atomic-research laboratory at Geneva, shows much accomplishment...