Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high point of an otherwise dismal 1-3 weekend was the comeback in the second Navy game...
...fellow citizens had queued up to vote in El Salvador's constituent assembly elections. In cities and towns across the embattled country, more than 1.5 million men and women braved guerrilla threats - and in some cases dodged bullets - to cast their ballots. Defying widespread predictions of a dismal turnout, at least 80% of the electorate - twice the normal figure - took part in the most important elections in the country's history. Said President Ronald Reagan in his prime time press conference: "Now they really showed that there is a real desire for democracy there, and I am therefore...
...dismal swamp of escalation scenarios and counterforce strategies is familiar territory to Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote a major segment of this week's cover package on the specter of nuclear war. Talbott covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and subsequently turned his reportage into a 1979 book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT 11. His fascination with Soviet affairs and Soviet-American relations goes back to his first Russian-language studies at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. A student of Russian literature at Yale, and then at Oxford, he worked as a 1969 summer...
...more often now, they depend on generic categories-romances (25% to 30% of all fiction sold), mysteries, historical sagas and scifi. According to Sociologist Walter Powell, co-author of Books, the Culture and Commerce of Publishing: "Fiction may no longer be part of the mass market. It looks very dismal for people who want to make a living writing novels...
Image: in the dismal sink, Skinny, shivering, I blink...