Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under MacArthur, few commanders played a more important role than "Ned" Almond in saving Korea from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
Last week the Communist Party organ Szabad Nep called on the government to crack down on jampec-dressed youngsters. Cried Szabad Nep: "They portray the dismal picture of imitating the American gangster's misanthropic spirit, moral decay and spiritual degeneration . . . Can we treat with indifference the fact that our youth are taught to dance sambas to the tune of the Hungarian czardas...
...very mode of expression of the unnamed spokesman for the American Psychological Association who views as "dismal" the acceptance of a teaching position which is open only to those who are able to deny that they are traitors to the U.S. [TIME, Sept. 18] bespeaks the smug sort of pseudo-intellectual among whom radicalism is considered fashionable...
Members of he Graduate Student Club have reopened their clubhouse at 18 Appian Way for the fourth consecutive year but are faced with a dismal ten to one ratio of males to females on their roster...
...experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone. Instead, after careful autopsies, he found only evidences of poisoning such as he got with injections of substances picked at random from the laboratory shelves. The rats' adrenal glands were enlarged, the thymus wasted away and the stomach ulcerated. Dr. Hans Selye concluded sadly that he had been wasting his time. Then it struck him: none of the substances which he had injected had directly caused death...