Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England's rise has been as stunning as it was swift. The Patriots had not enjoyed a winning season since 1966. After a dismal three wins and eleven losses last year, Quarterback Jim Plunkett-the 1970 Stanford Heisman Trophy winner who was supposed to parade the Patriots to glory-asked to be traded to a California team. Patriot fans, sensing that the RENOVATIONS UNDER WAY sign might hang for years longer, responded by planning to stay away from Patriot games. Result: season-ticket sales dropped by 10,000, and first-game attendance was the lowest in the team...
Grogan's standout performance with a dismal Kansas State team tickled pro interest, until he spent his senior season fighting an arm-numbing pinched nerve. Fairbanks remembered his first-class junior year and finally tapped him in the later round. But a cautious examination had proved him medically sound, so he came to the Patriots, with small expectations. Says Grogan...
...show Carter is in danger of losing, some party leaders are more likely to submerge their jealousies in the interest of capturing the White House. Carter be came markedly more aggressive on the stump, refocusing attention on what is his strongest issue: the economy. He was aided by some dismal statistics showing that 2.5 million Americans last year sank below the poverty line ($5,469 for a nonfarm family of four) and by reports from economists that recovery has slowed during the third quarter (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In Buffalo, Carter charged that Ford was "even worse" than Richard Nixon...
...concludes, "how much more horrific the history of these last 2,000 years must have been!" Given Johnson's grim recital of human frailty, that may seem more like faith than history. But, as he disturbingly observes, the first glimpses of a deChristianized secular future are most dismal indeed...
...this year, either. When Rick Burleson singaled to score Butch Hobson in the 15th inning Sunday, Fenway's dismal affair with the 1976 ended. As the right field bleachers clock steadily ticked off the final minutes of the season, a sign hanging below it already proclaimed next spring's hopes: "WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR! SOX of '77 NO. 1." As Burleson singled, the clock solemnly proclaimed "6:09," then shut...