Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friendly, and easy-going manner of the majority of people at home and even the plastic L.A. sensations. And it was no wonder that they were healthy, relaxed human-beings--they didn't have to spend six months of the year cramped indoors because of the slushy snow and dismal rain outside...
What is altogether too clear is that events will give the President and his advisers, old and new, no leisure in which to think out the details of economic strategy. Dismal crop forecasts last week made plain that food-price inflation is gathering speed again. A union plan to shut down the nation's coal mines this week underlined boiling labor unrest. The stock market, reflecting investor skepticism that anything much would change, plunged to new lows. The success or failure of Ford's presidency will be judged largely by whether in the months ahead he can produce...
...President Ford is a believer in press conferences, and so am I," terHorst said last week. He did not say how many or when (aides have suggested that one every couple of weeks or so would be reasonable), but Ford can hardly fail to improve upon Nixon's dismal record of 37 press conferences during 67 months in office...
...beyond that, the pickings were pretty dismal. The opening sequence, implicitly indicting the British for the whole problem, was too cute and facile. The time spent in Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem quarter of the ultra-orthodox, and in anti-Zionist Naturei Carta, was overlong and boring, chiefly because it had no point, despite the implied connection with a voice-over talking about the anti-godliness of early Zionism. And all the little shots of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which so delighted me must have been a crashing bore for those in the audience who had never visited Israel. The photography...
Under the Nixon Administration, especially during Stein's stewardship, the council has become little more than a political appendage. Stein's rosy interpretations of the most dismal economic news have become a Washington joke. Less humorous was Stein's decision to deliver blatantly political speeches during the 1972 presidential race. Stein's electioneering irritated influential congressional Democrats and made it difficult for the Administration to get a fair hearing for its policies...