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Word: dismalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a dismal start to his freshman year at Harvard, he thought about the Stanford offer more than once. Away from his large family (six brothers and sisters) for the first time, he says it was a "big adjustment period." Add to the transcontinental move a truncated freshman football season (two of six games were cancelled) and what seemed like "30 straight days of rain," and Woolway says he was "pretty unhappy." "I had never even used an umbrella before," the Angeleno laughs...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...least by musical comedy standards--more flesh-and-blood. Though his singing sometimes weak, Sellon's performance has a weet subtlety and his flexible, loose-limbed body enlivens Sara Roy's bouncy but bland choreography. Sellon, through charm and verve, survives one of the show's most dismal moments--an inane dream sequence in which Cocky slays a rag-doll dragon for his white-clad maiden (Belle Linda' Halpern) whom Robert Swerdlow's fair-to-middling lighting design strikes at most unflattering angles...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Working-Class Pleasantries | 11/11/1980 | See Source »

...current economic situation seems pretty dismal. Is there any hope on the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE From the Experts | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

...think inflation is going to continue for many years, but that doesn't necessarily mean things are dismal. Oddly enough, while prices have doubled in the last 10 years, wages have more than doubled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE From the Experts | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

...Post, the second-floor city room exploded with war whoops and cheers when Editor William Hornby, 57, gave his staff the news. Said one reporter: "The alternatives were so dismal: a businessman or a bunch of bankers. They might have turned us into an office building." Exclaimed one of his colleagues: "Now we can really start newspapering again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Thunder in the Rockies | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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