Word: dismalness
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...Mark Twain's celebrated story). Thanks to a five-year-old bullfrog named John's Long Tom, McCall bested 30 rival gubernatorial frogophiles and walked away with first prize for the third time in six years. Neighboring California Governor Ronald Reagan's frog finished a dismal 20th. The booby prize in the candidates' competition went to California's Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke, who was recently indicted on a charge of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee. His entry, which he vengefully named Jaworski, was disqualified for refusing to jump...
...stats are deceptive: the Crimson squad has been hot down the stretch when it counts. Everything is falling together for the team that started on a dismal note, losing two top hitters before the season even started and seeing the pitching, notably Mike O'Malley and Don Driscoll, run into some hard luck in the early going. Now, O'Malley and Driscoll are among the best in the East...
After all, if Harvard dropped two to the Big Red, its record would be a dismal 3-4 while Penn and Princeton were charging through their schedules with a 7-2-1 and 6-2 record respectively...
Economists have long disputed the idea that they practice "the dismal science," but when TIME'S Board of Economists met last week to assess the state of the U.S. economy "dismal" was about the only word to describe their forecasts. In perhaps their gloomiest session ever, the economists predicted a continuation throughout the year of all the nation's present economic woes: torrid inflation, skyscraping interest rates, sluggish growth, stubborn unemployment, a deepening trade deficit. Worse, they foresaw a new and frightening threat: the possibility of a financial crisis from which some savings and loan associations might have...
From what Great or Dismal Swamp in the American male psyche flows the Big Two-Hearted River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...