Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the dismal villages of Egypt last week came statistics that tell more about what is ailing the Land of the Nile than a 9-ft. shelf of political essays...
...Grad" interested me. As an Indiana University senior, I find that I am: 1) a social science major; 2) a Phi Beta Kappa; 3) in four extracurricular activities; and 4) working my way through school. Am I doomed to dismal failure...
...government. Much over-exaggerated, it is hardly the monster that certain campaign speeches have made it out to be. But what corruption does exist Truman has failed to handle swiftly or competently. His attempts to clean up the government, such as by appointing Newbold Morris, have ended in dismal failure...
Yale University appointed three new coaches Wednesday to fill vacancies left after last year's dismal showing. Robert Hall, Athletic Director, named Jordon Oliver, Bill Dudley, and Jack Prendergast as assistants of head coach Herman Hickman...
...truce tents at Panmunjom, nothing was settled either. A dismal pall of petty complexities had settled over a mission that once seemed pressing and simple. Daily, the truce delegates marched into their stove-warmed tents for the usual round of long, surly wrangles or ridiculous little meetings of a few minutes (one last week lasted only 120 seconds) at which neither side would speak. The issues were the too familiar ones-the Reds' insistence that Russia is a fit neutral to police the truce, the U.S. insistence on "voluntary" repatriation of prisoners, the usual exchanges of insults over mishandling...