Word: dismalness
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...jolly-ups"--the Fifties version of dorm mixers--and on the enforcement of strict parietals by nosy housemothers. Weekends revolved almost exclusively around the activities of the Harvard men. Dates for the big football games were planned weeks in advance in the fall of 1955, despite the team's dismal Ivy League performance. Few remember the details, but a right end named Ted Kennedy (back at school after a year's banishment for some confusion over a certain Spanish exam) scored the only Harvard touchdown against yale that year, as the Bulldogs and the snow combined to defeat the Crimson...
...jumped from 79 to 246. Last year the agency saved eleven insolvent S and Ls by ar ranging shotgun mergers with healthier institutions. These rescue operations cost the agency $1.3 billion out of its $6.5 billion reserve fund. The bal ance sheet at Economy Savings, however, was apparently so dismal that no takers could be found...
Israeli voters will decide whether they are ready to accept such strong medicine on June 30. The headlong plunge into euphoric consumerism in the past few months suggests that many may have to be convinced that self-sacrifice is still a useful virtue. But considering their dismal economic statistics, they may conclude that it is time to reimpose on themselves a sense of the discipline and purpose that have made the country strong...
...Sands' death, the I.R.A. last week bided its time. It might have reason to avoid testing its strength openly - and risking a defeat. For example, an I.R.A. attempt to coerce Irish Republic shopkeepers into closing down for a national day of mourning for Sands ended as a dismal failure...
UNFORTUNATELY, while most people may accept the administration assurance. American old people of today and of the immediate future face dismal prospects. Medicare is the cloth of Reagan's "safety net." In allowing this program to survive, he argues that the government was providing adequate protection against the serious hazards which accompany old age. But this net is flawed. The boundaries of Medicare keep it from addressing even some of the most common medical problems of the aged...