Word: dismalness
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...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
While last week's court of inquiry focused on Bucher, his testimony cast a dismal light on the entire U.S. military chain of command. Even the White House was fully informed in advance about Pueblo and her mission, and must have been cognizant of the serious risk of provoking retaliation from the belligerent North Koreans. Yet the ship's dangerous, unprecedented mission was approached with extraordinary nonchalance...
...girls added some excitement to what otherwise would have been another dismal week," said a staff member of the Daily Dartmouth. "Overall reaction from students, girls, and faculty alike was that Dartmouth should definitely go coed," he said...
...guess the thing is that they have retained all of the normal apparatus of a regular old rock and roll band, but their sound is unique. The only two groups that have done remakes of Who songs are the Amboy Dukes, and Count Five, but both of them were dismal limitations. Look at the individual members of the group. Peter Townshend plays lead and writes most of the songs. A lot of the time he plays chorded lead like the Stones on "Jumpin Jack Flash." A lot of the time he uses feedback. His lead is never predictable or clear...
...because flights to foreign countries are involved, Hughes will get back into a business for which he has long had an appetite. A pilot himself, he set speed and round-the-world flight records, and designed such innovations as retractable landing gears. But he has a dismal record of running airlines. In control of Northeast Airlines from 1962 to 1964, he sold out when the carrier was just short of bankruptcy. Under new management, Northeast recovered. From 1939 to 1960, Hughes also controlled TWA, which flew low in the later stages of his capricious reign. Financial pressures forced Hughes...