Word: dismalness
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There were some bright spots in the basically dismal Harvard performance. The young and the old supplied the Crimson with two All-Ivy stars, as senior captain Jim Keefe copped the fourth slot and freshman Stein Rafto finished 21st...
...represents the first game that Radcliffe has not lost this fall. The stickwomen had entered the contest with a dismal 0-8 record...
...fledgling league is reeling. Jacksonville, like Detroit, has gone out of business. The New York franchise has moved to Charlotte, N.C., leaving the league without a team in the nation's biggest TV market. The Houston Texans have shifted to Shreveport, La. Attendance at some games is dismal: 750 recently turned out at Philadelphia's 100,000-seat J.F.K. Stadium on a rainy night to see the Bell play, and fan support league-wide has fallen sharply below expectations. Reports of overdue paychecks are rampant; members of the Florida Blazers have gone six weeks without salary...
...Radcliffe tennis squad which had hoped for the team trophy in the 37-college New England Women's tournament over the weekend turned in a dismal performance, losing the top three positions to Yale, Trinity and Brandeis, at New Haven...
...today many public men must sympathize with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, who hears "On all sides, from innumerable tongues/ A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn." It is a period in which reputations seem extraordinarily vulnerable, in which everyone's bank of prestige faces...