Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Weather. Despite the dismal future facing most refugees, good weather at sea has led to an increasing number of escape attempts in the past two months. Since April, 244 Vietnamese have made the 1,000-mile crossing to Hong Kong; they were accepted when the U.N. guaranteed that it would cover their expenses and speed their departure after three months. About 2,000 have arrived in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. Most are packed into squalid refugee camps, hoping for resettlement elsewhere...
Hopkins missed the first tournament because of a dismal 3-7 regular-season record, but has since won a berth six straight years. The Blue Jays took the title in 1974 with a sterling senior class that had lost the two previous championship games, each time by a single goal. That would satisfy most schools, but not Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays have garnered 27 national titles, generally by being the best more often than once in six years. They're hungry for another title this time around...
...Harvard team, stricken by injuries and decimated by graduation, will limp through the spring in a struggle to measure up to last year's luminous 8-0 record. But for the Radcliffe squad, a rosy outlook is a bit clouded; with this year's talent turnout, last year's dismal 1-5 record should be avenged--but to what extent...
...even more difficult for the athlete to know when to quit. Baseball heroes Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays hardly went out as such. Mantle could barely walk during his last year and hit a dismal .234. Mays couldn't throw the ball and failed to reach the .200 mark in his final season. Just last spring I saw Henry Aaron smoking cigarettes in the dugout during a Milwaukee game...
Take the infield, for example Last season it was Blunder City, a general eyesore that contributed religiously to the team's dismal .875 fielding average. Three of four infield starters return from last year's squad, but as of now none of them have their old jobs back...