Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Williams' part is simple, but it requires little more than her unpolka-dotted presence to explain both the title of this dismal production and its attraction to Boston's throngs...
...will the Wyatt program get houses up? Will the $600 million subsidies to the building-materials industry relieve the dismal shortage of supplies? Will the building trades unions, traditionally jealous of competition, admit the 1,500,000 new workers necessary to carry out the program? Can the prefabricated housing industry expand from $100 million to $2.5 billion a year, even with Government help? Added to this is the fantastic complexity of building codes, union regulations, price & market agreements, and ancient, self-imposed taboos which hobble the building industry...
...South Sea sun and dark in the shadow of the Bomb, primitive man and progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
...closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the sea-a tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around...
Attendants and nurses at Kingston's dismal Mental Hospital struck to force the removal of a Bustamante-supported superintendent. Scores of unguarded lunatics yelled "We are free!", romped (some naked) into town, looting stores and homes, raping, smashing windows, or just wandering aimlessly...