Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...
London's blackout is dismal everywhere, but around Piccadilly it was horrible, with that special horror which the British put so well into stage and movie chillers, sometimes into real life. The slow footsteps of streetwalkers patrolling the gloom gave way to silence. They had not been afraid of Nazi bombs, but they were afraid of this...
With a single third-place as their only reward, the Varsity fencers turned in a thoroughly dismal performance in the pentagonal meet at West Point Saturday...
Having finished the first half of the league schedule with a dismal record of one win and five losses, the Crimson team should be fighting for not only fifth place tonight but also to keep out of the cellar now occupied by the Elis...
...solid week defending British Imperial troops systematically cut down a succession of small Japanese detachments venturing across the Salween. One large-scale crossing attempt was a dismal and costly failure: R.A.F. fighters and bombers pounced on invasion barges in midstream, left hundreds of the invaders dead, dying or scrambling in the swift water. The battered Japanese waited for fresh reinforcements from Thailand before risking another crossing attempt. Burma's commander Lieut. General Thomas Jacomb Hutton spoke confidently: "We are in a far sounder position to call a halt to the Japanese than before...