Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend of disappointment for Harvard's fencing team. Co-champions in the Ivy League and Ivy weapon titlists in foil and epee, the Crimson straggled home a dismal seventh in the final standings of the IFA Eastern fencing championships Friday and Saturday...
...tradition of the double-disaster weekend would stand, who would have guessed that a new dimension would be added to the Carbon Copy debacle? Who had the foresight to see that Harvard not only would endure the same denouement--back-to-back losses--but would follow the same dismal plot-line both nights...
...detected no overriding tide of opinion for the impeachment of the President. Ford had even declared, wishfully perhaps, that "the corner has been turned," and Nixon was regaining popularity. Fresh opinion polls quickly challenged that optimistic assumption. A Louis Harris Survey indicated that Operation Candor had been a dismal flop. Despite it, Nixon had skidded to a low point in popularity: only 30% of the public found his job performance acceptable. More significant, for the first time a plurality, 47% to 42%, agreed that he should resign. A Gallup poll also showed Nixon slipping again; his approval rating fell...
...Cost-of-living escalator clauses in labor contracts and the Social Security Act could keep incomes ahead of price boosts. Even so, the more economists try to be realistic in talking about the depressing prospects for unemployment and inflation, the more they look once again like practitioners of the dismal science...
...legal profession that has, however belatedly and at first by a narrow edge, finally become most aroused about the transgressions against law and the Constitution that make up the dismal scandal. While the profession has moved forcefully through such men as Sirica, Cox and Richardson to acquit itself, it is still on trial, and whether justice will finally prevail is still in doubt...