Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Harvard stood and watched during the second half, Dr. Tom David team worked a controlled offense quarterbacked by Dwan Chandler and powered by guard Mike Bennett. Bennett, who struggled through a dismal 2--6 first half, exploded to hit 7--8 from the floor in the second stanza and finished with game-high 21 points...
Fleming led the Crimson scoring with 16, but those points came on a dismal 6--17 evening from the floor. The usually accurate Tom Mannix suffered through a 5--12 evening. Both he and Harris wound up with 14 points...
...Iran's Revolutionary Council that U.S. journalists in the country must leave. Three days later in neighboring Afghanistan, the new Soviet-installed regime announced it would follow suit. By week's end the U.S. newsmen in both countries were being deported, and the American press faced the dismal prospect of covering the world's two most volatile stories from afar. Tales of two expulsions...
...Iowa, Ted Kennedy is not so bad a performer as his Eastern drama critics make out. He has his bad days and hours, his dismal speeches, his tangled syntax. But traveling along the frosted campaign trail in those wide spaces, one can pick up echoes of some of the old magic from John...
...19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them to possess primitive virtues that were unadulterated...