Word: dismalness
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There has been much unproductive talk recently about the dismal state of today's university students. People all over the U.S. are making big bucks playing on the public's insecurity about whether students know enough of the "right stuff' to truly be called educated...
...that a marathon peripatetic nosh was under way. , Looking for products that will tempt big consumer dollars this fall, the professional shoppers lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether it was the finest Scottish salmon and Italy's best Parmigiano-Reggiano or dismal Aussie Pie, which was baked and frozen Down Under, with its bland beef filling in a crust much like damp shirt cardboard...
...years the state of the marriage union in the U.S. has been widely proclaimed as dismal. Citing high divorce rates, preachers and social commentators have bemoaned the institution as virtually doomed unless American couples mend their fickle ways. To support their cries of alarm, they have often cited a commonly accepted statistic: one out of every two marriages ends in divorce...
...points over the previous week, closing at | 2291.57. The U.S. dollar staged its strongest rally of the year, rising about 2% against the yen and the deutsche mark in two days. Experts wondered, however, whether the financial markets could continue to pay such handsome returns in the face of dismal economic growth. Warned a French senior economic official: "This is simply not sustainable. Something will have to give...
...Half-truth is worse than a lie." Gorbachev, 56, also spoke glowingly of Soviet attempts to bring "democracy closer to man," words that must have chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would not be permitted to drag down the pace of Moscow's modernization drive...