Word: dismalness
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...Dismal Failure. Mao's difficulties with the army stem less from the commanders' opposition to Mao himself than from the soldiers' distaste for the disorder that the Cultural Revolution's Red Guards have created in their domains. Since the army's men in the ranks tend to come from the regions where they are stationed, they put heavy pressure on their commanders to side with the local people and party officials against Peking...
Many people in the city had believed that Boston would escape serious trouble altogether. Though Roxbury is not exactly Beacon Hill, Boston's black belt is far less dismal than most Negro ghettos. It has less than half (6.9%) the unemployment of Cleveland's Hough, 10.5% higher average family income ($4,200) than Los Angeles' Watts, and a relatively stable history, with many Negroes tracing their Roxbury roots back several generations. Yet obviously, as Negro Senator Edward Brooke pointed out, both the resentments and the problems were there in abundance. "The course they decided to follow...
...other nations before threatening to test the blockade. Should diplomacy or threats fail to solve the impasse, Lyndon Johnson is bound to become the target of heavy fire unless he actually does challenge Nasser. Nor would such criticism be unjustified, since failure to act would amount to a dismal retreat from a clear-cut commitment...
...demands and expectations?almost an inability to recognize the hard facts of life. The Arabs have seen Israel prosper on soil from which they barely scratched a living when they had it; Israel's success is not only a blow to their pride but a constant rebuke to the dismal poverty in which most of the Arab world lives...
...risen through the ranks to a key position in the Social Democratic Party. More to the point, he was regarded as a first-rate doctor who ran a model geriatrics clinic; under him, in 13 years, the clinic's "cured and released" ratio rose from a dismal 3% to 33%. Patients were devoted to the charming German Czech, and so was his staff. Small wonder that there seemed to be nothing between...