Word: dismalness
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That year, Champi remained in Cambridge to work on two papers while his former teammates finished a dismal 3-6 season with an unexciting "O loss to the Ellis in New Haven...
...Rojas finished a dismal 220 in yesterday's NCAA cross country meet in Houston Texes. The race was won by Neil Kusack of East Tennessee with a time of 28:23. Rojas had a time of 33:57. Of a field of 279 starters, only 241 finished. Other finishers were Doug Brown, second, of Tennessee at 28:44, and Ed Leddy of E. Tenn, who was third with a time of 28:52. Tennessee finished first with 134 points followed by East Tennessee with 148 and Oregon with...
...Chicago Daily News's Washington correspondent Peter Lisagor treated both parties with commendable fairness while panning a campaign he called "a dismal disappointment, the least ennobling in our experience." Mike Royko, Lisagor's Chicago-based colleague, deftly pointed out the irony of Mayor Richard Daley's quick return to party eminence after being unseated by McGovernites at the Democratic Convention: "He's getting his revenge, all right...He just sits back and lets the reformers and new-politics crowd come to him, asking: 'Steal one for us, Dick...
...infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal performace in school, where he was invariably ranked last, but in a manner which makes it all seem cutely ironic. ("What is ever to become of you?" Churchill's father asks...
...because the Liberal Democratic establishment was willing to gamble that he could turn the party's slowly eroding electoral fortunes around. So far, it has been a good gamble. Tanaka won an astonishing 62% approval rating in a nationwide opinion poll; Sato's last rating was a dismal...