Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Cozza keeps a very calm outward-presense, the fall has apparently been very tough on him. "This has been a dismal season for him. It sing," says Ryan. "He's not used to these situation so it's not as if he knows how to do this...
...dismal summer of 1961, when Nikita Khrushchev was threatening Berlin, Kennedy often worried himself into a black mood. One night in his office he wondered out loud if the world would blow itself up and decided that it probably would, since all weapons ultimately had been used by man against man. Yet almost instantly he challenged himself. Maybe mankind with its new knowledge could find a way out. A short while later Kennedy invited me into the Oval Office; then he took me to the White House swimming pool. Almost before I knew what was happening he had shed...
Playing on Saturdays--against Ivy opponents--the Crimson is 3-0. But with yesterday's mid-week loss, the stick women's non league record fell to a dismal...
Report cards on the nation's public schools have been dismal for a decade: teachers cannot teach; students cannot, or will not, learn. The shortcomings of the schools have been documented by lower Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, a national high school dropout rate of some 25%, the shrinking elite of students taking calculus and physics, the proliferation of remedial courses in colleges and in businesses to repair the damage. One study in the '70s found that 30% of 18-year-olds (47% of black youths) were functionally illiterate, unable to read or follow a set of simple directions...
...dismal answer came all too quickly. By 1933 the U.S. economy had spiraled down to a point so close to complete collapse that even those old enough to remember find it difficult to believe. One-fourth of the working force was unemployed, banks closed down, hungry men hunted for scraps of food in trash heaps. The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt marked a turning point perhaps most important for its assertion that economic recovery and revival could be achieved only with a substantial assist from the Government. While the Depression continued, it was softened by the New Deal...