Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, dismal day the flag-draped coffin was carried from the Embassy to a caisson, escorted up Massachusetts Avenue by a squadron of cavalry. The city grew quiet as the mounted band played a funeral march. The muffled drums and the dull clop-clop of the cavalry troop thudded in the grey air. Troopers carried the coffin into the grey, unfinished Washington Cathedral. A dull light edged through the rose window, on the guard of honor, the Union Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel...
...pledges to maintain the system of collective security was one of the principal causes of the weakness and ultimate failure of its foreign policy. The loss of confidence on the part of the French people in the good faith of their rulers in recent years contributed greatly to the dismal collapse of the Republic These are the outstanding lessons of recent European politics. They will not be forgotten by either the people or the politicians of America...
...other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, ''would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
Rain fell on Washington, cold, dismal rain. Along riverfront streets pocked with puddles the President drove through the chilly evening to the yacht Potomac's mooring. He boarded her, set off down river for a few days' rest. He could keep in touch with Washington by wireless. Any urgent message could be transmitted...
...peewee French officer, Rouget, in one chanceful, inspired evening composed The Marseillaise, which rang through the torchlit streets of Revolutionary France. But soon he became a counterRevolutionary, escaped with his life to live 40 dismal years...