Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the varsity match was proceeding to its dismal conclusion, the yearling Gymnasts, also undefeated, were wasting no time disposing of Harvard freshman grapplers, 23-7. The loss was the first of the season for the Yardlings, whose record now stands...
...Dismal Catalogue. Above all other obstacles on the road to abundance looms agriculture, the perennial problem child of Soviet society. Though Russia regularly exported big farm surpluses in Czarist times, in 46 years of Communism it has never yet managed to grow enough food or raw materials for its needs. In 1963, after four straight years of disappointing harvests, the farm problem came to a head with a disastrous crop failure that forced Russia's leaders to buy $935 million worth of wheat from the capitalists they vowed to bury...
Last week 6,000 experts and officials from all over Russia gathered in the Kremlin for a week-long Communist Party Central Committee meeting on farm problems. As speaker after speaker reviewed the results of Khrushchev's pet panaceas, Nikita listened somberly to a dismal catalogue of failures...
Artful Cajolery. With a dismal, cramped theater, a small orchestra bor rowed from the Boston Symphony, no resident chorus, and a budget that might be mistaken for lunch money at the Met, Sarah Caldwell, 38, is gaining a professional reputation as the best opera director in the U.S. Her company can give only one performance each of five productions this season, but her ardor and talent are so deep that everything she does is memorable. Her Lulu last month was a musical triumph for Bos ton, but / Puritani may have been the chef-d'oeuvre of her career...
...Crimson ski team stumbled to a dismal last place finish in the St. Lawrence Winter Carnival last weekend, behind squads from Dartmouth, St. Lawrence, and Norwich...