Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychiatrist LaGrone's dismal picture of the transient military family [Dec. 11] is grossly distorted. Moving around is for us a way of avoiding the stifling, narrow-minded existence of one town, one state, one country. He suggests that our fathers are authoritarian figures in search of someone to bully. Except for the uniform, the average military family man is shockingly ordinary...
Three horrible Harvard power plays in the lackadaisical second period, matched only by the Crimson's dismal, third period excuse for a power play (their only set-up came in the last 20 seconds of the penalty), drowned out the early-period flurry that almost put Harvard even...
Because of these dismal job prospects, Rosovsky says he fears "it will become difficult, and perhaps impossible, to continue to attract highly creative and intelligent young people to teaching and scholarship...
Champion Salazar, who hails from Weyland, Mass., edged out runner-up Michael Musyoki of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). UTEP took the team laurels, followed closely by Oregon and Wisconsin. Defending titleist Henry Rono of Washington State (the one team the harriers defeated) came home a dismal 192nd...
...most women congressional candidates, it was a dismal election week. One, Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected to the Senate, but the two women who are already there are leaving: Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota and Maryon Allen of Alabama. Forty-five women ran for Congress, but only 16 won election, two fewer than...