Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-game exhibition match, the doubles teams of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Billie Jean King battled Wendy Overton and State Commerce Commissioner John Marino to a 2-2 tie. The Duke's dismal serving performance (four consecutive double faults) was largely attributed to a court full of Republican line judges...
According to a U.S. analyst, the Kosygin speech meant "a more-of-the-same approach, on a more realistic basis." There were a few changes in the Politburo-Agriculture Minister Dmitry Polyonsky was made a scapegoat for the dismal harvests, and was dropped from the ruling body, while two candidate members were promoted to full membership. But the aging Soviet leadership remains basically unchanged and will probably continue pursuing essentially the same policies...
...March hoopla of the various post-season basketball tournaments has slowly begun bouncing its way across the country. However, due to the dismal seasons (what else is new) of the Crimson's quintets, the bouncing play off ball won't stop off in Cambridge...
...with the departure of Ronson, the waning of glitter's initial excitement, and the pressure to move from critical raves to a high place on the charts. The LP's after Alladin Sane were all disappointing. Pin Ups, a reworking of classic British hits of the sixties was a dismal failure. Bowie's vocals are so mannered to begin with that when he works with lyrics less surreal than his own he sounds like he's camping it up. Diamond Dogs was worse, an unintentional self-parody. And David Live took him out of the studio with disastrous results...
...guilty of defamation in the Massacre in Rome case, has postulated that Pius overlooked SS atrocities because he saw the Germans as a barrier against the greater enemy of Communism. Last week Katz said that Volume IX demonstrates that Pius "did all he could"-but calls that policy "a dismal failure...