Word: dismalness
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...stations which carried the message "Jim Carney may not be a brother, but he's got soul" were aired at the same time he was pandering to anti-black sentiments on the West Side. As it turned out Carney-West, with the result that the combined effort was a dismal failure. A scant three days before the election, the Cleveland Plain Dealer predicted that Carney would edge out Pinkney, with Perk finishing a poor third. What actually occurred was that Perk won handily with 38.7 per cent of the total, beating Pinkney by 16,000 votes. Pseudo-brother Carney finished...
...victory today will provide solace in a dismal season for both the Crimson and the Elis. Picked by many in pre-season to finish one-two among the Ivies, Harvard and Yale, both 4-4 on the year, will be fighting for a first-division spot today...
Light winds prevailed on Saturday, allowing completion of only one of the three planned races. The Crimson saw a seemingly secure second place evaporate in the thin air to a dismal seventh. Yale's Pat Seaver dropped anchor to sip beer until the changing tide carried the bull-dogs across the finish line in first place...
...Rebozo-Smathers series, Greene and his team worked for six months, of which 21 were spent in Florida. They conducted 400 interviews and examined 20,000 documents. "It was not glamorous work," says Greene. "Most of it was dismal slogging-sitting down, hand-copying every land transaction and analyzing it." Rebozo and Smathers declined to be interviewed, and the White House refused to answer questions. The team even had trouble getting access to public records; the Florida State Division of Banking, said Greene, agreed to provide them with bank records until it learned that the bank involved was Rebozo...
...argued that Jackson brought this fate upon himself by his unlawful actions--or at least by being caught at them; the psychological impact of this prospect must have been awesome. Yet, Jackson had far more immediate problems than those that might have been raised by his speculation upon the dismal future that awaited him on his release. As are all lifers, he was faced with the legal potentiality of never being released from prison alive...