Word: dismalness
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...Besides Moore, Oxford's Phil Lewis edged Bill McLeod of Yale in the 880 by .9 seconds, finishing in 1:57.8. And in the supposed feature race of the day Julian Goater won the mile with a 4:13.0, .9 seconds over John Quirk. Favorite Robert Steele finished a dismal fourth. Oxford-Cambridge also won the 440 and the 440-yard hurdles...
...University is bending over backwards just as strenuously in its recruiting of teaching fellows. We can expect to see an increase of only .6 per cent in the number of women teaching fellows and of .3 per cent in the number of minority group members given these appointments. As dismal as these targets seem, the planned increases in the numbers of women and minority teaching fellows are even more meaningless than the token increases proposed for faculty hiring. Since, according to Harvard's proposal, there is a 100 per cent turnover in teaching fellow appointments every year -- as opposed...
Although ranked sixth in New England last week over Harvard's ninth place, Eli scoring has been dismal, with a 3.4 goal average. The only threat for Yale is Baltimorean Bruce Smith, who has accounted for six of Yale's 17 points in 0-5 Ivy play...
...vital to the effective structure of an intelligence operation. Agents, overloaded with work, were instructed to relegate security intelligence procedures to the lowest possible realm of importance. Thus, since criminal procedures took obvious precedence, abysmal gaps formed within the Bureau office itself. The field picture was even more dismal. Uninformed agents, without any field intelligence training whatsoever, insisted upon ordering the informants' strategic moves, demanding absolute obedience. This resulted in a staggering attrition rate among Bureau informants. Those who succeeded in the field owed their success to outright rebellion against illogical and/or potentially compromising Bureau directives...
Bucky Wunderlick, the all-purpose sensibility of post-'60s exhaustion, is a rock star sick of mainlining on fame. In Don de Lillo's latest novel, he leaves his band and retreats to a dismal converted loft to watch the roaches crawl over the unwashed dishes in the sink...