Word: dismalness
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...Yale Rugby Club, sparked by a break away late in the first half, edged the Harvard ruggers here Saturday, 12-4, as the Crimson wound up a dismal season with a 28 record...
...cause of the flare-ups is the same as that which ignited racial violence across the U.S. in the seemingly progressive 1960s: rising civil rights expectations rubbing against static reality. Although the Navy has managed to recruit and promote more blacks, their representation remains dismal. Less than 1% of the officers and only 5.8% of the enlisted personnel are black. The blacks insist that they are assigned the most menial tasks and receive harder punishment than whites for equal offenses. Says Lonnie Brown: "Two men have to chip down a wall. The black man will be told...
JUAN DOMINGO PERÓN stepped from a chartered Alitalia DC-8 onto Argentine soil for the first time in 17 years last Friday, and into a steady rain. The weather was remarkably similar to that on the wet and dismal night in 1955 when he fled the country aboard an Uruguayan gunboat, after being ousted from power by a military coup. This time Perón, now 77, expected better on his self-styled mission of "peace and understanding." His survival and return after all these years had the stuff of great human drama. But instead of the million...
California had its own cataclysm in the 1920s: Prohibition. Many of Haraszthy's precious vines were ripped up. By the time of repeal in 1933, only a handful of vintners were left, turning out spirits supposedly for sacramental or pharmaceutical purposes. Against this dismal backdrop, Ernest and Julio Gallo entered the business...
...fact, the next two seasons produced nothing better than a backup signal caller position behind Tom Creevy, a tall, strong quarterback, who now plays linebacker for none other then--you guessed it--Ara Paraseghian and the fightin' laprochans. Creevy directed the squad to a dismal 5-4-1 record in 1968 and an undefeated season which netted the Knights a third place ranking in the Heosier State at the end of the year...