Word: dismalness
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Before coach Nat Harris removed Thornton, the hurler had thrown two wild pitches and given up two walks. Roy Creedon, who took over the dismal situation, added another wild pitch and four walks...
Where to go for a giggle? In the teen joints of Soho, the word went out: make it Clacton. Like a flock of noisy starlings, more than 1,000 youths buzzed into the dismal North Sea resort for Britain's four-day Easter holiday. The weather was foul-and so, Clactonians decided, were their visitors. Most of the invaders "slept rough" on the beach, warmed only by their "birds" (girl friends) and quantities of "purple hearts" (goofballs). Inevitably, the giggling had to stop, for Clacton's invaders belonged to London's two hostile teen cults: the "Mods...
...first official trip outside Washington since becoming First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson visited the Appalachia section of Pennsylvania, where thousands of families live in the poverty of a dismal past. Last week she made her second trip-an excursion into the future at the Huntsville, Ala., Marshall Space Flight Center, where she saw the Saturn moon rocket...
...Dismal Disjointed View...
...picture he offers of suburbia, science, politics, and other vulnerable aspects of contemporary life is a credibly dismal one, but is also disjointed and confused. While the Wapshots stay to one side of the picture, a number of characters (some of them quite minor) occupy, with their mutually irrelevant stories, a suprising amount of room. Six parts of The Wapshot Scandal originally appeared in The New Yorker, and signs of the independence that they once enjoyed prevent them from forming a coherent whole...