Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon would be a poor, dismal place to start a colony. It has no detectable atmosphere, certainly no water. Other planets are not much better. Mercury is fiercely hot on the side that it keeps toward the sun and fiercely cold on its sunless side. Outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are cold worlds with hostile atmospheres of methane and ammonia...
...starved old white horse . . . The sun was going down and flaring out like an angry fire at the child-and the child, and I, and the pale horse, stared at one another in silence for some five minutes as if we were so many figures in a dismal allegory...
...single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn by feuds between Egypt and the Hashimites (Jordan, Iraq), precariously held together only by a common desire to be revenged on the Israelis. Egypt's Azzam, a suave intriguer, became a symbol...
Until this fall Apley Hall was a rather dismal old dormitory used for storing people who didn't quite make it into the Houses. But starting this month Apley has been transformed into an enormous white hope...
...Asiatic periphery the Kremlin has made captive China and Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Northern Korea . . . the northern half of Indo-China . . . It has added 500 million people to its arsenal of manpower. Most of these peoples of the Far East have been our friends . . . Through a dismal decade of false starts, fractional measures, loud policies and faint deeds, we have lost them. Again I can hear you say the conscience of America shall never be free until these peoples have opportunity to choose their own path...