Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel's line south of the port, the German surprised them with a massive assembly of 88-mm. anti-tank guns and the British tanks took a dismal mauling-suffering losses which were at least partially responsible for the British defeat...
...least with farce. For one bubbling Blithe Spirit, there were a dozen cold, dismal flops...
Those British mine workers who are paid by the amount of coal dug often cannot earn county minimum wages while working bad seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...
Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...
John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...