Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet, denied even a seat in the Commons, he painted and laid bricks, traveled widely, and wrote an average of a million words a year. Later, during the dismal era when Hitler and Mussolini were rising and Britain shuttered its windows to the world, Churchill returned to the House to rum ble bitter warnings from his seat below the Tory gangway. He was unheeded, but never unheard...
...very beginning. The Bruins took an early 12-2 advantage, and led throughout the first half. Harvard's zone defense, which had worked so splendidly early in the season against Connecticut and Boston College, was listless and ineffective. And while the defense bumbled, the Crimson's shooting was a dismal 30 per cent...
...these bald philosophic propositions are the weakest part of a suspenseful and moving script. Of course it's redundant for the man to say "It's useless," or "Even a monkey could be trained to do this" when he's digging in a hole as dismal as that one; but after sand, struggle and serendipity, when life gets reduced to ciggs, sake, and sex, the sensations are powerfully communicated to the audience: you taste that drag, you smell that swig, you ... like the feelies in Brave New World...
...numerous agencies which could directly handle the basic problems--the Public Housing Authority to construct new dwellings and subsidize rents; Building Departments to enforce codes and prevent deterioration; the FHA to provide mortgage money for urban areas instead of draining it away to the suburbs. The history of dismal failures by these agencies would appear to indicate that no overwhelming desire to help the poor exists...
Open, he wound up with a dismal tie for 23rd. He thus did not qualify for the four-man World Series of Golf, an unofficial "exhibition" that used to be his private preserve: two years running, he had tak'en home the winner's purse of $50,000-biggest check in golf. His money came mostly in dribs and drabs, ranging from a low of $475 in the U.S. Open to $24,042 for winning Pennsylvania's Whitemarsh Open. Added up, it came to a pretty penny-but it was a tough way to make 100 grand...