Word: dismalness
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There was no prospect for success if Begin and Sadat stayed apart; and their meetings had now become fruitless because the two men were too personally incompatible to compromise on the issues facing them. There was only one thing to do, as dismal and unpleasant as the prospect seemed: I would try to bring Sadat and Begin together for an extensive negotiating session with...
Despite bumper crops, U.S. farmers are having a dismal year...
...Harvard men's cross country team took its act to New York Friday afternoon, and in contrast to last weekend's dismal loss to Northeastern, it was no flap. The Crimson scored key victories over Columbia and Penn to jump out to a 2-0 record in Ivy League Competition. The win over Columbia was Harvard's first in three years...
...rates would stay down temporarily, and production might grow rapidly and unemployment drop for a while. But then inflation would reignite, and sooner or later the Federal Reserve would have to crack down again to choke off the miniboom. That scenario would in effect mark a return to the dismal and overlapping inflation-recession cycles...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...