Word: dismalness
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...year ago, women's basketball at Harvard University was a joke. Neither the players nor the coach took the team seriously, and as a result, they waltzed their way through a dismal season...
Coach Bill McCurdy was flu-ridden and did not make the trek to New Jersey. For McCurdy, and the ailing members of his squad who did not make the trip and had to content themselves with sprints for the porcelain bowl, it was a dismal end to a dismal season...
Perhaps the most powerful sign of how badly Gardner has miscalculated is the belief that a reconciliation between Thomas and Grodin constitutes a happy ending. In fact, their dismal marriage makes the best argument yet for rapid passage of no-fault divorce laws...
...coming back as himself, the matchless Mr. Clutch who as a high-scoring guard led the Lakers into the N.B.A. playoffs 14 times in 14 years. The post-West Lakers had been a crying shame, winding up the 1976 season next to last in the Pacific Division with a dismal record of 40 wins and 42 losses...
...soon enough making a stripped-to-the-waist play for a book contract. Others have more powerful claims on him: a brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw him into the mainstream of life. In the end, they conspire with the superb Tom Courtenay to reveal Simon...