Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major political blunder that undid Griffin last week. After announcing, in the spring of 1977, that he would not seek reelection, he began playing hooky from his Senate job, missing 216 roll calls that year. When he later changed his mind and entered the race, his dismal attendance record haunted him, even though he previously had a well-deserved reputation as a Washington workhorse. Exclaimed Levin repeatedly during the campaign: "If any one of us missed 216 days of work in a year, we'd be fired!" Michigan voters agreed...
...taken the other side. They're worried about the 60-odd parking spaces on Mass. Ave. which may be permanently lost. Some of them are predicting that they will have to relocate or go into bankruptcy because of the disruption of traffic and business. The scene they foresee is dismal at best...
...Harvard men's cross-country team, bouncing back from its dismal defeat last weekend in the Heps, earned a trip to the NCAA championships with a second-place finish behind Providence College in the New England Regional qualifier Saturday morning at Franklin Park...
CORNELL at COLUMBIA--These are the games of which dismal percentages are made. CORNELL 5, COLUMBIA 4 (Joe Holland homer in the ninth...
...weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility. From the western end of the strip, shrouded from the view of both the control tower and the KLM crew, Pan Am Captain Victor Grubbs was nosing his 747 through the mist toward the Dutch plane. Twice Grubbs radioed the tower, on a frequency shared by KLM, that he was still on the runway...