Word: dismalness
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...Harvard team, stricken by injuries and decimated by graduation, will limp through the spring in a struggle to measure up to last year's luminous 8-0 record. But for the Radcliffe squad, a rosy outlook is a bit clouded; with this year's talent turnout, last year's dismal 1-5 record should be avenged--but to what extent...
...even more difficult for the athlete to know when to quit. Baseball heroes Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays hardly went out as such. Mantle could barely walk during his last year and hit a dismal .234. Mays couldn't throw the ball and failed to reach the .200 mark in his final season. Just last spring I saw Henry Aaron smoking cigarettes in the dugout during a Milwaukee game...
Take the infield, for example Last season it was Blunder City, a general eyesore that contributed religiously to the team's dismal .875 fielding average. Three of four infield starters return from last year's squad, but as of now none of them have their old jobs back...
...poorly equipped that I did not even have any underclothes. Although I had taken my family's best quilt with me, I still shivered with cold because its cotton wadding was worn thin from age. That season in Peking there were heavy sandstorms and the nights were dismal. I had not yet come to know politics. I had no notion of the significance of 'Kuomintang' and 'Communist Party.' All I knew was that I wanted to feed myself and that I adored drama...
...much for good intentions. Most of them escape from the wreck of the model train on the special-effects man's miniature trestle. Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing...