Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan's Ronnie-come-lately interest in the dismal state of American education is certainly heartwarming [June 20]. After all, Reagan once bragged on national television that he never tried to make grades higher than Cs. since Cs were the minimum necessary to be eligible to play sports...
Fusco was, from the start, considered a first rate defenseman, destined to etch his mark in College sports history. But the squad he started with as a freshman was so dismal it seemed he would never garner more than individual trophies...
...dismal lessons of the 20th century," writes Paul Johnson, "that, once a state is allowed to expand, it is almost impossible to contract." John son, a lapsed liberal and a former editor of Britain's New Statesman, blames this condition on an unbridled will to power that was inadvertently released when Newton's orderly universe fell to Einstein's theory of relativity...
...legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored by a lady figure skater. Now Bob Nystrom's name appears four times on Lord Stanley...
...thinclads had greater success in the other field events, which were held indoors because of the dismal weather. Co-Captain Gus Udo saw his overseas ticket go to Bulldog Doug Wiggins when Wiggins leaped a quarter of an inch longer than Udo in the long jump, but Udo came right back to lead a Crimson sweep of the triple jump...