Word: dismalness
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Martin pointed out that despite the team's seemingly dismal record (to date 1-3-1), morale is still high...
That the cadets' encounter with the Crimson merits inclusion in the pantheon of "days" reveals how seriously this campus is taking today's sold-out football game. More than a confrontation between two football teams that seem headed for winning seasons after several dismal years, the game pits the nation's two best-known--and perhaps most different--academic institutions against one another for the first time since...
...process worked well the first year because the subcommittees had a plentiful supply of courses proposals to peruse. The second year, the number of ideas fell drastically. And the prospects for this year are dismal. Therefore, the subcommittees now face a "new challenge," as Edward T. Wilcox, secretary to the standing committee, says. They must "go out and attract courses and people who didn't arrive in the natural course of events," he explains...
...Bryant returned to his alma mater, which had floundered through four dismal seasons. Before the Auburn game that year, he told the Touchdown Club in Birmingham: "Gentlemen, I wouldn't bet anything but Coca-Cola on tomorrow's game. Next year you can bet a fifth of whisky. And the year after that you can mortgage the damn house." Bryant was right. A bettor would have lost a Coke that first year (Auburn won, 14-8), but the mortgages were safe: Alabama took the next four games in the series without allowing a point...
...squad is by no means a formidable opponent, but could give the Crimson some trouble all the same. Five starters will return from last year's dismal 2-10-1 squad, which can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. Calling his squad "mediocre in most areas, an average team," Alessi described his outlook as "guardedly optimistic...