Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come out of your dismal, crepe-shrouded offices and stop wringing your verbal hands in despair. For there's a bright new world ahead...
...Gold Room of the Roosevelt Hotel, the atmosphere matched the dismal day. The air grew thick with tobacco smoke, thick with angry words. The 175 top officers of the United Steelworkers were cooking up a strike already approved by their membership. After meeting all day they came to a decision: the strike would start...
This was one of the few bright spots in the dismal story of U.S. surpluses abroad. Out of the $555 million in surplus Army & Navy goods, ranging from mosquito netting to steamrollers and locomotives, FLC had sold only a microscopic $18 million in cash. UNRRA had been the best customer, because UNRRA could draw against the $150 million contribution which the U.S. has made in surplus to UNRRA. But in a desperately needy world there were few other buyers. Why? Yankee Trader. Chief trouble had been FLC's notion that it should sell surpluses to foreign governments only...
...Haunt Manhattan's better taprooms in dismal abstinence (Lewis, once no mean tosspot, is under strict doctor's orders not to touch liquor...
Isamu Inouye, a Tokyo commentator, broadcast a dismal plaint: "There is no place where the wounds do not appear. . . . Communications are in disorder, homes have been burned . . . clothes are covered with dust. . . . The Japanese people, who love bathing so much, are not able to bathe. . . . Even the vegetables of the family gardens . . . were entirely blown away by this recent typhoon. . . . Through the roofs of the people's very humble temporary living quarters . . . shines the moon and also leaks the rain...