Word: dismalness
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...dismal attendance numbers here cannot be explained by the fact that the Crimson doesn't play in the majors. Many of my friends left Fenway's 1992 Opening Day in order to write papers. They led an exodus in the seventh inning. Harvard students work hard; they don't have time to sit in the bleachers and watch a silly game of baseball...
...Peruvian territory have been overrun by drug traffickers and vicious Shining Path guerrillas, whose terrorist campaign has reached the shantytowns around Lima, the nation's capital. Less than 20% of the work force is employed full time. More than half of Peru's 22 million people live in dismal poverty; a recent cholera epidemic killed more than...
...January 1989, after another dismal Christmas, the McConkeys gave up. So did four other merchants around the Albany town square. For a while the McConkey store stood empty; then the town bulldozed it with others to make way for a Place's store, a regional general merchandiser that was already on the Albany square. The old Place's is empty. James McConkey is now teaching school and driving a school bus. His brother has a job with a paper-products firm...
...announced plans for the park at a ceremony in front of the Paris Bourse, they were pelted with eggs and tomatoes. Where their children (who buy 10 million copies of Le Journal de Mickey) see a mouse, French intellectuals smell a rat. They called the project "Euro Disgrace," "Euro Dismal," "a cultural Chernobyl...
...were overwhelmed by the entire thing and put out a dismal effort," Marin said...