Word: dismalness
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...World. Since its founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer began setting up aniline plants from Albany, N.Y., to Moscow. Friedrich Bayer's successor, Chemist Carl Duisberg, transformed the company's dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg was also a prime mover in organizing...
Yaleman Cox, 53, has made a lot of money in business (timber, mining), and lost a lot in sports, investing in such dismal properties as New York's inept football Yankees of the early 1940s, Brooklyn's short-lived football Dodgers, and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, which finished seventh the year he owned it. A few years ago he foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League. It has lost money, predictably, but this year's overall attendance, 288,743, was roughly double the 1960 total...
This poet, the future martyr Jean-Baptist Hippolyte Marie-Henri Muscari, is visited by the local priest and frankly admits he did not commit any of the crimes. He has done it to gain notcriety, a condition quite unknown in his dismal career. "You do not know how bitter it is to be ignored," he tells the priest...
...dismal facts and alibis tumbled out in the Commons, the adulation and affection the Tories had once bestowed on "Macwonder" turned almost visibly to a kind of stupefied pity. At the end of his defense, Macmillan pleaded: "I am entitled to the sympathetic understanding and confidence of the House and of the country." But from the Tory benches, as he sat down, came a sound that was more sigh than cheer. By twos and threes, perturbed backbenchers went out to argue in the lobbies while several Tory speakers caustically condemned the Prime Minister. Macmillan rose and with bowed head left...
...formation of disarmament and civil right groups is very largely a response to the stirring rhetoric with which President Kennedy heralded the "passing of the torch," and to the dismal race he and the new generation have run since they took over in Washington. The candidate raised expectations which the President has not satisfied, and the result has been the growth of organizations which aim at doing for themselves what Kennedy is unwilling or unable to do for them. But perceiving only vaguely that at least some of Kennedy's difficulties stem from a stubborn, powerful opposition rather than from...