Word: dismalness
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Saturday night the Crimson five were snowed under by a UConn storm of fastbreak baskets and lost, 80-52, in front of 1100 fans in the IAB. The team, as a whole, shot a dismal 25.6 per cent from the field and only 5 per cent from the foul line...
...problems of the Blades-Knights are unique in degree but not in kind; big-league hockey is in trouble. Average attendance in the W.H.A. is a dismal 5,200 per game. None of the twelve teams has turned a profit since the league was founded two years ago. In the established National Hockey League, where sharp play and packed arenas were traditional, attendance has begun to slip. and there is a shortage of top performers. "There used to be 18 true professionals on each team," says Bobby Hull, the former Black Hawks star who is now player-coach...
...miserable evening for the Crimson five in almost every category. The statistics reflect the dismal play of Harvard: the team as a whole shot 25.6 per cent from the floor and 50 per cent from the foul line...
There are some other good films showing in Cambridge this week--though, compared to most weeks, this one is almost dismal. The documentary festival and the two Fellini films at Brattle are the main attractions...
...hiring more minority group members for clerical and maintenance jobs--the Building and Grounds Department for example, with four per cent black employees in the middle sixties, is now almost 11 per cent black. But the University's performance in hiring blacks for higher level positions has been dismal, saved only from complete failure by the formation of the Afro-American Studies Department and the consequent employment of a number of black faculty members to staff...