Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before, after a month's battering, Canadians, British, Indians and Greeks of the Eighth Army broke the Gothic Line at its Adriatic end. There in heavy rain they had taken Rimini, where modern Italians bathed on hot summer days. Now it was a dismal memory of a town; (still erect were the gallows where partisans were hanged the week-before), opening the way into the flat plains behind the Gothic Line...
...Nature of the Word is the theme of the Christmas oratorio that follows. Before the Nativity, men of the Roman Empire shrank from a future that seemed then as dismal as it does to some today...
...more steel than in any first half-year in its history. Bethlehem Steel kept pace with Big Steel, netting $13,166,381 v. $12,842,000. But the smallish Pittsburgh Steel Co. provided the market-shocker. Its fat profit of $1,021,524 of last year turned into a dismal loss of $72,901 this year...
...line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break, no matter how sure was defeat, how dismal the amateur attempts of the Party high command to stave...
...hand and leaning into the wind, in their quest for some hot food. The wind was reaching a velocity of 40 to 45 miles an hour in its worst puffs, and its whistle was audible above the dreadful sounds of clashing steel and pounding surf. It was about as dismal a scene as I ever recall, and I have seen such things as the Quetta earthquake in India and monsoons in the Indian Ocean...