Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the Elements. A cold, dismal rain drips steadily on American infantrymen slogging through the mud. Snow caps the high hills. On roadsides, in vineyards and olive groves of "sunny Italy," troops snatch much-needed rest. Punch-drunk with weariness, shoulders hunched against the chill wetness, they sit with their feet in the gumbo. Hot coffee is a Waldorf luxury. Wood is too wet to burn. When some anonymous genius discovered that the two wrappings around the K rations would burn just long enough to heat a canteen-cup of coffee, he won the soldiers' undying gratitude...
...adroit emphasis and inflection Franklin Roosevelt managed to turn the words of others into words of his own. And he left no doubt that he thought some U.S. newspapers have sunk to dismal depths. Not since the famed "dunce cap" and "chronic liar" press conferences had he delivered so hard a pitch...
...breaks, injuries, and dismal weather ushered in the 25 to 30 defeat of the Crimson cross country runners Saturday at the hands of a neighboring M.I.T. squad...
...dismal winter's morning last week many a suburban Johannesburger twitched and turned in his last few minutes of troubled sleep, awoke alarmed at the unmistakable rhythm of hoarse-voiced jungle chanting. Early risers discovered the source: 20,000 black men, women & children, packed gutter to gutter on the Pretoria road, marching to wild, weird Bantu songs and war cries...
Wealthy ex-Smuggler Juan March (el Ultimo Pirato del Mediterráneo-also called el Yanqui), whose gold financed Francisco Franco's Fascist triumph over Republican Spain, once said of himself: "I can smell money." Now nearing 90, his nostrils are still sensitive. Last week they sensed a dismal future for the regime Juan March had helped to power...