Word: dismalness
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Since sanctions, then, seem an inadequate threat for Rhodesia and a dismal prospect for all of Central Africa, what policy remains to prevent the solidification of another racist state in Southern Africa? The only possible action which could ward off Rhodesia's declaration of independence an immediate and forceful threat of military intervention. It is unrealistic, however, to expect Britain, whose Conservative Party is split over whether or not to go through with the application of sanctions, to take such decisive action on its own. It is necessary that the initiative come first from the United Nations, and that...
...play was repeated each school day last week outside Crawfordville, a dismal cluster of 20 stores and 786 inhabitants that clings doggedly to its one fading claim to fame: it was the home of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-83), Vice President of the Confederacy. Naturally the town has a school named after Stephens, and though nearly all other Georgia schools are now integrated, its classrooms remain Stephens-white. Last summer, presumably to qualify for sorely needed federal funds, county officials assured Washington that they stood ready to open Stephens to Negroes. Thereupon, white parents transferred their children in droves...
Cold statistics make it difficult to understand why Harvard has had such problems with Columbia. The Lions' rushing defense was a dismal seventh in the Ivy League last year, but it held Harvard to 80 yards on the ground and forced the Crimson to scramble for a 3-0 victory. Either Coach Buff Donnelli has Harvard's number, or else the Lions find it easy to key on a team's running when it has no semblance of a passing attack. At any rate, Harvard will have to work hard to justify the confidence of the bookies who have made...
...problem is everywhere to behold-in fly-filled villages, along dusty bullock paths, in the dismal density of city tenements-millions of people trapped in desperate squalor. In the hope of ending all this, India has struggled ineffectually for years to promote family planning. The rhythm method proved too complicated for a 75% illiterate population. To help women keep track of the days of the month, the government devised a handy string of beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception...
...still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely as a shocker sure to quicken the pulse of any anxious...