Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe tennis squad which had hoped for the team trophy in the 37-college New England Women's tournament over the weekend turned in a dismal performance, losing the top three positions to Yale, Trinity and Brandeis, at New Haven...
...today many public men must sympathize with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, who hears "On all sides, from innumerable tongues/ A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn." It is a period in which reputations seem extraordinarily vulnerable, in which everyone's bank of prestige faces...
...cross-country squad has sputtered to a dismal start, sporting only one victory in its first four outings. The victory came against a feeble Brown team last week...
...pennant race, but I sat through nearly seven hours of baseball in Fenway Park to watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
Saturday and Sunday, Radcliffe placed a dismal third of nine schools in competition for the Man-Labs trophy at MIT. Jackson College and Salem State College finished ahead of the 'Cliffe in heavy winds...