Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angular, just-jawed Yale coach spoke but little and smiled not at all. Yovicsin, always affable, fairly effervesced. For Oliver, losing to the Crimson made a dismal season even more disconcerting. Victory over the Eli gave Yovicsin his fourth win against Yale in six years, a record few of his predecessors could boast...
Clearly, there is truth in this vision, but the dour alternative that prevails today is no answer either. Just as there are many to whom meals without women are dismal affairs, so too there are others who would decry the end of insulation from the female. At present, the misogynists have their way, but under the plan suggested here, neither side would suffer unduly. For those who wish it, girls will be there; for the rest, the dining halls are surely large enough to provide tables and escape. The man who feels unsafe even when women are sitting at some...
...long way from the social prestigiousness of the 1880s, when Louis Keller is said to have compiled the first edition of the Social Register largely by culling the National Horse Show Association membership list. Its first site was a dismal railroad terminal, which William K. Vanderbilt bought and later converted for the use of the newly formed National Horse Show Association. On the first opening night, in 1883, urchins ran conducted tours of the upper-crusted boxes for a quarter a throw, while the elite thrilled to races between fire engines and competitions between mounted policemen in stopping runaway horses...
...cover story on Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, Der Spiegel reviewed September NATO military exercises, reported signs of chaotic neglect in West Germany's civil defense organization, and argued that the country's NATO troops were in a dismal state of unpreparedness. Practically all Der Spiegel's evidence was classified "top secret," a fact duly noted by West German Acting Federal Prosecutor Dr. Gerhard Wesgram in Karlsruhe...
...peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12. "I just love a deal," said Gilbert. He dabbled in beer stocks, pocketed $5,000 as management consultant to a lathe works, ran his stake high enough to move from dismal digs into a Copacabana suite that he leased from a feminine exile named Simone Delamarr, who had been one of King Farouk's flings...