Word: dismalness
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...cross-country squad has sputtered to a dismal start, sporting only one victory in its first four outings. The victory came against a feeble Brown team last week...
...pennant race, but I sat through nearly seven hours of baseball in Fenway Park to watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
Saturday and Sunday, Radcliffe placed a dismal third of nine schools in competition for the Man-Labs trophy at MIT. Jackson College and Salem State College finished ahead of the 'Cliffe in heavy winds...
...earnest but lackluster incumbent who moved up from Lieutenant Governor when Nelson Rockefeller resigned last December. A poll published last month by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, showed Carey leading Wilson by the surprising margin of 52% to 27%. Carey's strong showing has improved the once dismal prospects of his ticketmate: former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an ultra-liberal Texas transplant who is challenging liberal G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, 70, long (perhaps too long) New York's biggest vote-getter...
After Keefe, the Crimson finish was pretty dismal. Freshman Stein Rafto earned good marks for his twelfth place effort, but Brian Dunn, Tom Phillips and Campbell finished well back in the pack. Injuries and inexperience proved to be too much...