Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown should prove no problem. The Bruins own a dismal 4-9 record, and are winless in league competition. Earlier this year Brown lost to Northeastern 85 to 63, while the Crimson edged the Huskies by three points...
...decline is continuing, largely because most new apartment buildings dispense with concierges entirely. Yet those who still have jobs cling to them as long as possible because, on retirement, they are entitled to only a minimal social security payment. Touched by the dismal prospect facing aged concierges, Union President Laffon raised money from the government, property owners and insurance companies for a retirement home to open this spring at Lardy, 27 miles from Paris. When completed, it will house 83 persons who can happily spend their declining years refusing to answer knocks on their doors, or peering down long corridors...
...Bombay. Air India's Boeing jets coming into Santa Cruz airport swoop low over miserable mud and bamboo huts, where the air is fetid with the stomach churning odors of cow dung, urine and rotting humanity. The broad, smooth expressway from the airport into Bombay is lined with dismal rows of tenements, where more than a million people are crammed in small, single rooms and share whatever toilets exist with dozens of neighbors. One of every 66 Bombay residents has no home at all-except for the dark undersides of staircases, cattle sheds and sidewalks. Even the wide Marine...
...mission, an aerial attack on two companies of Viet Cong dug into foxholes near the difricult-to-patrol Cambodian border, some of the ground fire came from across a river that separates Viet Nam from "neutral" Cambodia-a river that one American adviser bitterly calls "our own private Yalu." Dismal Seen e. Despite the attempt at improved mobility, South Viet Nam's generals have yet to stage any spectacular feats against the Viet Cong although they have plans on the drawing boards, and government forces last week captured more weapons than they lost for the first time in months...
...character named Hero speaks those lines with drawn cynicism in the climactic scene of The Rehearsal, one of the few glittering productions in the dismal new season on Broadway. It is the motif of the play and the motif of Playwright Jean Anouilh, who is perhaps the most produced of all living playwrights. Since the death of Jean Giraudoux almost 20 years ago, Anouilh (ahn-oo-ee) has been the essential voice of the French theater-a voice that speaks so dryly of shattered hope that you can almost hear it break...