Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a lack-luster record (2 and 2 in the Ivy League), Penn has made steady improvement over a dismal beginning. Perennially a late-bloomer in the Ivy League, the Quakers have won their last two League games, and Munro rates them a "very definite threat" to Harvard's undefeated Ivy League record...
...patient continues in a seemingly inexorable decline, said Dr. Karnofsky, "the state of dying may be protracted by expensive and desperate supportive measures, and the patient is rescued from one life-threatening situation only to face another. Many objective observers, in contemplating this dismal scene, plead with the doctor to let the patient go quickly, with dignity and without pain...
...Lammermuir Hills near Edinburgh and loved Auld Jock the shepherd with dogged devotion. One day, too old to earn his keep, the shepherd (Alexander Mackenzie) was heartlessly turned off the croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep...
...Heisman Trophy winner and two-time All-America, Hornung was drafted by the last-place Packers in 1957 as a quarterback-the same position he had played so successfully at Notre Dame. But in the pros he was an instant, dismal flop. "I couldn't even make the fourth string," he says. Because his handoffs were too slow, his passing mediocre, Hornung was used only sparingly in Packer games, was permitted to call only five specific plays. "In one game," he recalls, "a player saw me coming in and yelled, 'Look who's here-rollout right...
...sense, the Hearst merger did indeed represent a "step forward." It eliminated a tenant from "the poor farm of American journalism"-as the late Oswald Garrison Villard described Boston's dismal and undistinguished newspaper scene (which, besides the two Hearst tabs, includes the Globe, the Herald and the Traveler). But Hearst's motive was less progress than pure economy. Both tabloids have been losing ground for years. Record circulation has dropped 59,000, to 352,842, since 1957; over the same period, the American has slipped from 176,318 to 163,169. After the merger was announced, dismissal...