Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue high command has succeeded in exploiting the "seven dwarf" underdog angle--reports of "dismal" and "discouraging" practice sessions have been filtering out of New Haven all week...
...same time the Bulldogs have been getting better. After a dismal first half season, the Yale freshmen came to life in trimming Dartmouth three weeks ago, and last week upset a powerful Princeton squad with an aerial attack that scored...
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Universal), from the British thriller of the same name,* is told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall...
Princeton's Tiger has been burning bright these past few weeks. After their dismal first half season the Tigers suddenly came to life two Saturdays ago, taking a 16-14 thriller from Columbia. They routed Virginia 55-14 last week and looked more and more like the 1947 Big Three champions who just one year ago trampled Harvard into the Stadium...
When Yale, Princeton, and Harvard cross-country teams battle along the 4 1/2 mile course at New Haven today victory-starved Crimson harriers will be out to avenge not only this year's dismal season, but also to make up for two straight losses to the Eli's and Tigers...