Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale is in the middle of a four-game losing streak. It lost by two goals at Princeton last Saturday. All that is left is the possibility of a victory over the Crimson and the salvation of another dismal winter...
...Harvard, it was the second consecutive dismal showing. The Crimson, seventh-place finishers at Dartmouth last week, edged St. Lawrence by little more than a point, and trailed sixth-place Maine 275.3 to 271.6. Harvard will compete against essentially the same field at the Middlebury Carnival next Friday...
...this meet, it will be a pretty dismal season for us," McCurdy said. "The meet is hard to figure because there are so many events up for grabs. In this sense, it sort of reminds me of the Northeastern meet...
Totally bereft of money and merchandise, Dante was too ashamed to face his wife Laura and five-year-old daughter Sabrina, who were waiting for him in their dismal one-room flat in the slum quarter of Centocelle. Instead, he clambered up the Colosseum, accompanied by a sympathetic friend (who climbed down again, half-frozen, after only 37 hours). Wrapped in a pink blanket that from a distance resembled a toga, Dante survived a dismally cold week on hard rolls, tea and water, sleeping on a ledge the size of a card table. Once, he slipped, almost fell...
...only effective but essential in military terms, and it continues to have a devastating impact on civilian life in Indochina. Because of new techniques, including low-level "saturation" attacks, the effectiveness of airpower in stopping the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail has risen from a dismal 15% to a remarkable 85% over the past two years. Close air support, moreover, has saved Cambodia's plucky army from disaster in any number of battles...