Word: dismalness
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...morning two weeks ago, some New York City commuters living north of Manhattan awoke to a radio traffic bulletin even more dismal than usual. Because of a turbine breakdown at a Conrail power station, their trains into the city would be half an hour behind schedule. Fearing that the delays could be much longer, thousands of travelers took to their cars. But just as rush hour reached its bumper-to-bumper peak, a 4-sq.-ft. section of cement roadbed in the southbound lane of Manhattan's elevated West Side highway suddenly collapsed and tumbled to the ground below...
...Tigers should prove the biggest threat to Crimson hopes for an Ivy League championship. Enjoying the benefits of a springtime that arrives earlier in central New Jersey than subpolar Cambridge. Princeton annually logs more practice time than most of its league rivals. Harvard will try to improve on its dismal seventh place finish in the 1980 tournament...
...victory gives the Hoosiers their second championship under coach Bobby Knight--they won in 1976--and their fourth in the school's history. They started off the season with a dismal 7-5 performance but came into their own in December and ended up winning the Big Ten Conference. The unusually successful Knight capped the Most Valuable Player award for the game...
...barrels toward hell: the lead singer dies, and Tony deserts his kid ("Little Pete") on a NYC street. Bakshi decides to bring the story up to the present while linking it with the past, so Pete struts the street to Pat Benatar's recent "Hell is for Children" (a dismal choice for an anthem!) and stops to look in a doorway where an orthodox rabbi is chanting and moves on. Young punks denying their past! Oy vey! The screen explodes into surreal dance on the edges of razor blades, mouth-piercing safety pins, and the Sex Pistols growling...
...absent Trumbull, however, had little to do with Harvard's dismal showing in the quarterfinals, which displayed the awesome force that momentum plays in volleyball. Houlihan said, "We had some problems with their topspin serve, but mostly we let up some, lost our momentum, and it was all over...