Word: dismalness
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Kassem's efforts to put down the revolt have been a dismal failure. He distrusts his army because one-third of its troops are of Kurdish stock, never gives raiding parties more than two days' supplies and ammunition lest they go over to the rebels. Fighting a hide-and-seek guerrilla war, the Kurds have made fools of Kassem's generals, currently have 2½ divisions -half of Kassem's army-tied up in the frustrating campaign...
...Dismal East. Despite West Berlin's stability, there was just a touch of tension in the air last week. Part of it came from the spate of new rumors that Moscow will soon sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, a move that would bring new efforts to shut off West Berliners' few remaining access routes to the West. West Berliners were also nervous at the chance that hordes of restive East Germans might choose the Wall's anniversary as an occasion for a mass escape attempt through the 95 miles of concrete, barbed wire...
...Minneapolis, the bitter strike against John Cowles's Star and Tribune finally ended last week−having set a new and dismal record. The two papers had been silenced for 113 days−nearly two weeks longer than the previous record, established during a 1953 strike of the Seattle Times. As the Star and Tribune scrambled to get back into print, it was painfully clear that in the protracted and expensive showdown everyone was the loser...
When the students first started to dig three years ago, they almost gave up when they came upon their first find: a couple of beer bottles and a decayed horse collar. Had they merely stumbled on the dismal debris of some 20th century squatters? Nothing daunted, Dr. Ellis persuaded everybody to dig further...
...when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...