Word: dismalness
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...Warren Spahn, 44: a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career...
...Indians have a dismal 1-7-1 record this season; in the EIBL, they are 1-2, with a victory over Penn and losses to columbia and Cornell...
...team's hitting a pre-season "strong" point, became another headache for Shepard. Third-baseman Jim Tobin, who led the Crimson last season with a 351 average, hit .333 on the tour, but the other averages on the team were dismal. Outfielder George Neville hit .227, and short stop Tom Bilodeau, with a .158 average, led the team with a paltry four RBI's, Falcone's 250 mark was second best for the trip...
...Kladd and the Klaliff, the Klectoken and the Klexter, the Klig-rapp and the Klokan, the Klokard and the Kloncilium, the Klonklave and the Klonvokation, the Kloran and the Kla-rogo, the Klorero and the Kludd.* In the Klan Kalendar, the days of the week were named Dark, Deadly, Dismal, Doleful, Desolate, Dreadful and Desperate; the weeks of the month were Woeful, Weeping, Wailing, Wonderful and Weird, and the months Bloody, Gloomy, Hideous, Fearful, Furious, Alarming, Terrible, Horrible, Mournful, Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling...
...Gaulle's aim was to seize control of as many local governments as possible for his U.N.R. party, which has precious little of the grass-roots support it will need to survive its creator. The campaign proved a dismal failure. Though 14 of the 16 Cabinet ministers won, the U.N.R. as a whole failed to gain a majority on the council of any city of more than 100,000 population except Bordeaux, which the party already controlled. Particularly galling to De Gaulle was the lack of a majority in Paris itself, which the Gaullists had been confident of capturing...