Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole notion of the United States being occupied by the Soviet Union is absurd--there are many dismal possibilities, but that's not one of them," said Ulam. He said the Soviet government would never choose to launch such a major invasion because "they have enough trouble with their own people...
Suddenly, though, Rossignol's reputation has taken a spill. French skiers, ! two-thirds of whom use skis supplied by Rossignol or its Dynastar subsidiary, have had a dismal season. It culminated earlier this month with their total failure at the world championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. While Swiss skiers claimed eight gold medals and even tiny Luxembourg carried off a gold, not one of the 30 prizes at stake was won by a French skier. The dejected French competitors blamed the bad showing on their skis and on poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom...
...seven series might have been inconclusive. Shifting winds made the first something of a lottery, and the second was waged in the heavier breezes that Stars & Stripes candidly preferred. But in the third race, just one upwind leg in moderate Kookaburra weather told Murray his fate. Near the dismal end of that afternoon, a rubber speedboat pulled up alongside the Kook captain. " 'You've got a bomb on board,' they said. 'What do you want to do?' Our immediate response was, 'What's the bad news?' Then we thought, 'Here's our chance to find out if there's life...
...thousands are starving. In Bangladesh, 15 years of foreign assistance has made little measurable improvement in people's lives. Everywhere stories are told and retold of corrupt government officials who rip off assistance before it reaches the needy and of wasteful projects and high living by aid workers amid dismal poverty...
...capita income over the past two decades" in countries south of the Sahara Desert. Worse yet, said the report, sub-Saharan Africa now produces less food per person than it did in 1960, despite the tens of billions of aid dollars spent on rural development. Among reasons for this dismal record: ceaseless political strife, wrongheaded economic policies and a harsh and erratic climate...