Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo conditions have long been dismal. All movies and theaters (except the ancient Kabuki plays) are closed. Rationing is strict, and there is little for sale. Night workers, miners and Navy personnel are permitted to buy vitamins. A bottle of about 300 pills is sold to authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because...
...Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven acres planted by the Pilgrims themselves were a dismal failure. This, said Bradford, was the fault of "ye badness of ye seed, or lateness of ye season, or both, or some other defecte...
...took over its section of occupied Berlin, death-ridden capital of a dead empire, last week. Along a road marked off by the Red Army, a column of 4,000 U.S. vehicles rolled toward the shattered city. As the Americans crossed into suburban Zehlendorf, a dismal rain fell. Cried some gaunt Berliners : "Gott sei dank - Thank God!" Others stood silent and sullen...
...that poked up into the bay from the mainland -and on its satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built on stilts over mud flats. Natives call it Daru'l Salam-Abode of Peace-and it showed little fight...
...Manitoba). Even more significant: the election left socialistic CCF losers scattered all over the map. A few months ago many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they...