Word: dismalness
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...them without their consent." But with the ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation, forcibly transfering eastern tribes to territories in the west. There followed a dismal procession of measures designed to wipe out tribal sovereignty and assimilate Indians into the white-American mainstream. In mid-century Congress established federal boarding schools for Indian children, where they were forbidden to speak their parents' language on pain of corporal punishment; in 1871 it abolished the practice of making...
Most Americans would agree that Government management of the economy affects them directly and powerfully. They might even concede that an understanding of what Historian Thomas Carlyle called "the dismal science" of economics is more important than ever before. But, economics is a forbidding subject, burdened by statistics and often by predictions and conclusions that emphasize the "dismal" and minimize the "science." Each week TIME'S Business section strives to make these sometimes murky matters pertinent, interesting and understandable. It achieves this by stressing in its stories the role of the people who make and administer major economic decisions...
...breathtaking landing, amid Florida's marshes and palmettos rather than the baked sands of California's Mojave Desert, was a stunning finale to a flight that was, at best, bittersweet: a dazzling display of the space shuttle's tremendous potential and yet a dismal reminder of the continuing frailty of technology in challenging the cosmos. The troubles ranged from the disastrous loss of two highly sophisticated communications satellites, valued in excess of $150 million, to a rash of lesser mishaps: a clogged toilet, the mysterious blowup of a ballyhooed navigational experiment, and a sudden case...
...kind of sloppy at the end," said the Crimson's Arne Duncan, the current Ivy Rookie of the Week who deposited a career high himself this particular night. Coupled with Carrabino's 32, Duncan's 20 points were the saving grace in an otherwise dismal day that began with Ferry's mishap...
...modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained nothing in translation to contemporary San Francisco, where a dismal group of losers ineptly attempt to rob the safe of a pawnbroker who is, grumpily, the only friend they have...