Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as joyful to eye-rubbing Tories was a dawning hope. CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey, who ran a dismal third, had stood on the campaign's fringes shouting hallelujahs for the promised land of socialism. If Grey North was any indication of Dominion sentiment, the lusty CCF had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...
...prison was ahead of us. . . . My first good look at O'Donnell prison was from atop a rise about a mile off. I saw a forbidding maze of tumbledown buildings, barbed wire entanglements, and high guard towers, from which flew the Jap flag. I had flown over this dismal spot several times, but never had given it more than passing appraisal. I wondered as I looked at it now how long I would be there; how long I could last. As we stood, staring dazedly, there came to me a premonition that hundreds about to enter O'Donnell...
Despite the dismal failure of other attempts to put submarine-borne spies to work on U.S. soil, the Germans tried again. This time they sent only two, but apparently thought their prospects well worth a lot of trouble: the Nazis took a U-boat out of service for 54 days to ship them from Kiel to Frenchman...
Volkssturm members captured at Metz, some in regular army uniforms and others in civilian clothes, wore arm bands in scribed "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht." They were pathetic specimens, unanimously glad to be out of the war. Their fellows in East Prussia made a dismal showing against the Reds, and Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, Germany's top military commentator, publicly belittled them as fighting...
Pollster George Gallup has countered this dismal reminder with a more sanguine survey...