Word: dismalness
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...Dismal But Real...
...Despite Brown's dismal record, it was clear that the Bruins were capable of a fairly strong offensive performance, and from the second period last weekend Brown posed a very realistic threat of upsetting the Crimson...
...direct result of such contact. The excerpts from the board's initial meeting were compiled by Clell Bryant and Claire Barnett. What does not appear in the excerpts is one little exchange that goes a long way to demolish Carlyle's famous description of economics as "the dismal science." Asked by Editor Loeb to clarify a point during the discussions, Dr. Walter Heller, a former presidential adviser, smilingly replied: "I purposely left that a little vague. I was following the Alex Cairncross dictum. His first rule when making a forecast is: Give either a number or a date...
...vast land and as numerous as its people. This was to have been a "year of triumph" for Mao and China-with a victorious end to his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and a restoration of law and order throughout a badly fragmented nation. But the balance sheet is dismal for 1969-as it is for many of the years since...
Given the rising rents, many of the low-income, particularly the elderly, residents of the City are faced with a dismal choice-stay in Cambridge and pay high rents or move away, breaking ties which often extend over several generations...