Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's ski team began its campaign to better last year's dismal last place finish in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) by placing fourth in both the Alpine and cross country competition at the University of Vermont Carnival last weekend...
...dead bodies of former slave masters; in recent years the unsavory nature of the Haitian government has tended to keep that isolation intact. As a result, Haiti is a country that has turned in on itself and had little commerce with other nations, one reason for its dismal economic status (annual per capita income...
...turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic Vic and Sadisms that still crop up in their elders' talk, here at last is a chance to sample the real stuff. Mary Frances Rhymer, the author's widow...
...Italian government 18 months ago to revive fundamentally strong firms that have fallen on hard times. And times have been particularly hard for Italy's industry in the past three or four years. Under the impact of incessant strikes, inept management, stiffening foreign competition and generally dismal economic conditions, Italian companies have been disappearing as fast as scampi at a gondolier's picnic. About 1,500 plants closed in 1970 alone...
...year after beating such teams as St. John's and St. Bonaventure, was also hurt by the poor performance of leading scoccer Mark Raterink. Raterink, who averages 20 points a game, scored only 12 points and shot a dismal 3 for 18 from the floor...