Word: dismalness
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With the dramatic announcement, the White House mood brightened enormously. Aides who had been depressed and subdued by a long series of dismal domestic developments and international setbacks began joking and bantering as they became caught up in the hectic preparations for Carter's departure. The President himself looked more jovial...
PRESIDENT BOK WOULD have us believe that human civilization is still in the Dark Ages. The portrait of Harvard he paints in Friday's open letter on "the ethical responsibilities of the university in society" is a dismal flash-back to medieval times, when colleges were walled fortresses, isolated from society. Bok would have us spring to the battlements, caldrons of boiling oil at the ready, whenever society's political turmoil and moral conflicts approach the gates...
Carnegie II offers a dismal diagnosis. But as any responsible doctor would tell you when he recommends radical surgery, it's best to get a second opinion...
After losing two games out in Minnesota (the 5-4 loss to Minnesota-Minneapolis on the 27th being the last display of objectively competitive hockey as we know it), Harvard found itself with five important Division One games in January and a chance to turn around its uncharacteristically dismal 2-5 ECAC start...
...Harvard women's basketball team, unable to put together a sustained drive, never fully recovered from a dismal start and fell, 69-60, to Yale last night...