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Word: dismalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gained 205 yards on 16 carries during his senior year at St. Ignatius High in Cleveland, was the workhorse of the drives that put Harvard back in the game in the fourth quarter, carrying 13 times for 76 yards. He was the one bright spot on an otherwise dismal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Callinan's Biggest Day | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Close-Up; Brattle--The pedestrian in the black coat and the woman in the windbreaker are having a whispered argument over the '50s. He thinks it was the most dismal decade ever. She thinks it was glorious. She says, there would be no trash in the streets and everyone would live in neighborhoods. All the women would wear skirts...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Two American Actors | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

Spending a cold rainy afternoon in Providence is no one's idea of a good time--especially so for the women's field hockey team, which suffered through a particularly dismal afternoon yesterday, losing to Providence College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friars Best Crimson Stickwomen, 3-1 | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

...Redskins lost again on Sunday--their record is now a dismal 0-5. My dispirited father tells me that the score at one point was 3-30, but that a punt returner is showing great promise. I have given up, and am searching about for new teams to which I can pledge my allegiance. Baltimore--a nearby city--has been rejected because the Colts and the Orioles rival the Redskins for sheer lack of talent and success...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Scalped | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...

Author: By James Altschul, | Title: South Africa: No Sand Left in the Hour Glass | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

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