Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislative tampering, if Congress does indeed give him specific orders to impose broader controls. Moreover, the President is clearly betting that his meat-price ceiling will soothe public alarm about inflation enough to ease the pressure on Capitol Hill for more sweeping measures. Even so, Phase Ill's dismal Act I has turned what once looked like a routine legislative chore for the Administration into another suspenseful confrontation with Congress...
...seems dismal now. That it is brown and dying; not the round, pink living thing it once would become; when pressed and bruised with kisses. It seems more desperate now. It's fullness never opens slightly, seducing the quietest breath of appreciation, or pain. It seems the dead, angry thing it is. The perpetual pout, not a sultry coyness, but the pout of dismissing the world...
Sabre-man Terry Valenzuela, the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal season for Harvard's fencing team, garnered another honor yesterday, as he became the only Crimson performer to win selection to the All-Ivy fencing squad...
There are exceptions to this dismal catalogue. The Agua Caliente band, which owns most of the real estate in Palm Springs, Calif., is wealthy indeed. The Jicarilla Apaches in northern New Mexico, blessed with rich oil and gas deposits on their lands, have made investments in movie productions and are developing hunting and tourist facilities...
...hard to convince the average Harvard hockey fan that the team won't finish among the top four in the East next year. When you combine the lack of experience among next season's defensemen and the toughest schedule Harvard has ever had, the prospects are indeed dismal...