Word: dismalness
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...name has a certain edge of truth. In basketball, Tabbies would have been more like it. L.S.U. did produce Bob Pettit, who went on to make it big in the pros. That was in the early 1950s; since then, the school has had only one winning season, losing a dismal 212 out of its 323 games. Then two years ago L.S.U. hired away North Carolina State's Coach Press Maravich-and presto! Look at those Sabertooths! So far this season, they have won nine out of twelve games, including six of the last seven, and rank as a strong...
Charlie (Wallach) is a failed vaudevillian; Harry (O'Shea) was a scoutmaster until his penchant for boys was discovered. On a cheerless Sunday evening in the dismal London suburb of Brixton, they are in their barbershop giving each other the full tonsorial treatment. This Sunday is particularly cheerless, since Charlie has been summoned to trial for "impersonating a female" in a club known as the Adam's Apple, and may face a jail sentence. Since the confrontation never does take place, the play's electricity is static: tingles of apprehension but no real voltage of menace...
When Toronto's Dr. Gordon Murray announced that he had operated on seven paralyzed patients by cutting, shortening and rejoining their spinal cords, neurosurgeons were incredulous. How could he have succeeded where so many others, equally skilled, had failed? Last week Toronto General Hospital issued a dismal and dismaying report on Dr. Murray's cases. A search of its records disclosed that in only one case had the spinal cord actually been cut, as Dr. Murray described. And this was not the case of Bertrand Proulx, whom Murray had exhibited at a fund-raising dinner (TIME...
...history, and a man, moreover, of liberal sympathies and considerable intelligence. Also, Publisher-Politician Macmillan could write better than any contemporary politician except Winston Churchill and better than any publisher except Leonard Woolf. All these qualities are alive and present in his long second volume, which records six dismal years of World War II in far from dismal fashion...
...bibulous as distinguished from the meteorological sense, December in the U.S. is the wettest month of the year. The weather is usually dismal enough to call for the cup that cheers; but it is Christmas and New Year's Eve, those nationally permissive drinking occasions, that pop the cork and the bung and inspire a steady round of wassails. In a single month, the nation's drinkers buy an eighth part of their annual supply, some of it to give but a good share of it to consume. This year, December's national bill, for spirits alone...