Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Blodgett cleared 13 ft., 11 in., the jubilant Crimson team hoisted McCurdy and assistants Ed Stowell and Roger Robinson to their shoulders and paraded them in front of the stands. Thus ended an undefeated dual-meet season for the squad that was, despite a dismal Heptagonal showing, the greatest Harvard track team of all time...
EXETER: The first ten minutes MAKE MINE MINK are sickeningly dismal, as only a British fare can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining eighty minutes, happy to tell, are shear joy, Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding house occupants in a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...
...contrast to the rather dismal picture of Massachusetts Hall--Cambridge relations, Brown University, a 2500-student liberal arts college in Providence, maintains a town-gown atmosphere as good as Harvard's is poor...
...sagacious reporting of the Cuban invasion disaster was a real eye opener. Perhaps the only good to come from this ugly mess will be the awakening of the average American as to his naivete in global politics. If this is representative of the New Frontiersmanship, the prospects look dismal indeed...
...1930s, the Depression economics of Britain's John Maynard Keynes modified classical doctrines, but it still had a whiff of the "dismal science" about it: the internal dynamism of the capitalist economy was gone forever, as Keynes saw it, and permanent government manipulation would be needed to keep the economy from sinking into stagnation. Even after the splendid performance of the U.S. economy in World War II (in part because of planning, in part in spite of it), economists tended to take a melancholy view of what lay ahead, predicted massive transitional unemployment. It was against this somber background...