Word: dismalness
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...Iran's Revolutionary Council that U.S. journalists in the country must leave. Three days later in neighboring Afghanistan, the new Soviet-installed regime announced it would follow suit. By week's end the U.S. newsmen in both countries were being deported, and the American press faced the dismal prospect of covering the world's two most volatile stories from afar. Tales of two expulsions...
...Iowa, Ted Kennedy is not so bad a performer as his Eastern drama critics make out. He has his bad days and hours, his dismal speeches, his tangled syntax. But traveling along the frosted campaign trail in those wide spaces, one can pick up echoes of some of the old magic from John...
...19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them to possess primitive virtues that were unadulterated...
...While the White House officially maintains that the 1980 deficit will be about $30 billion, some of TIME'S economists expect it to approach $50 billion. The problem will continue into fiscal 1981, which begins next October. Says Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution: "It is a very dismal budget outlook, and there is going to be a real fight. I don't think Carter can get spending much below $610 billion and, even at that, he has got to be tight on everything...
After shooting 63 per cent from the floor in the first half of its last game against Texas, Harvard hit a dismal 35 per cent of its shots in the first half yesterday, the primary reason for the 12-point halftime deficit...