Word: dismalness
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Waiting Game. He told his mostly conservative listeners what they wanted to hear. "The Great Society," he said in Texas, "is not the wave of the future but the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the 1930s." Welfare is "a colossal and complete failure," he said in Des Moines, where he once was a sportscaster and a liberal Democrat. "Let's stop being our brother's keeper, and be his brother. Let him keep himself." On Viet Nam he repeated his hard line. "Attrition has been more costly than a quicker and more violent effort...
Last year at this time, Harvard cross country captain Jim Baker was hobbling through a dismal season on a badly-sprained ankle--struggling for fourth and fifth place finishes if he could...
There is even more convincing proof of how dismal the dilettante finds his study of language here: a full 80 per cent of Harvard's students apparently get out of the language for good as soon as the College will let them...
...involvement in this unfortunate land. Having spent nearly a year as a physician with the Army here, I have seen the deplorable state of Vietnamese medicine, and I have been embarrassed and angered by the feeble efforts of our government in this sphere. In striking contrast to the dismal record of governmental bureaucracy is the progress of the religious organizations; and though I am by no means a religious man, I am proud of what these Americans are doing. I speak with special feeling of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital here in Saigon. In this institution American doctors...
...that the Maoists "face the danger of losing the army," and Mao took action. First, he promised that all of the top brass who would come to the army's 40th anniversary party and repent and switch to his full support "would be welcomed." The ploy was a dismal failure: only four of China's 13 regional commanders showed. Then, amid dark hints of a major purge, Mao summoned a meeting of the Politburo in Peking to discuss what to do next...