Word: dismalness
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...days near the end of the new term's first month. The picketing was to take place over a weekend, and when it snowed 18 inches on Friday, skeptics wrote the Project off as a dead letter. The demonstrators made the trip to Washington only to find a dismal welcome--besides the weather, many Capital officials were unsympathetic. But Project Washington was far from finished--student leaders rallied the group and staged one of the city's biggest and best-organized political demonstrations the next day. The picketers paraded around the White House, and then embarked on a three-mile...
...grudging marriage of convenience proved a dismal flop. By rights, the hyphenated offspring should have had a circulation roughly equal to the sum of its parts (241,965). Instead, circulation dived to 191,143. By rights, a single evening paper, without competition, should have gained ads. Instead, in 1960, the News-Call Bulletin's linage fell 6% from igGo's figures. By rights, the combined operation should have reduced the combined deficit...
...Money, a chestnut colt that had not won a major stake in its three years, the 86th running of the Preakness Stakes by a nose over high-rated Ridan; at Pimlico. Odds: 11 to 1 in an eleven-horse field that included Kentucky Derby Winner Decidedly, which placed a dismal eighth...
There was no joy on Coogan's Bluff. The fumbling New York Mets, starting their first season in the newly expanded National League, lost their first nine games-tying a National League record for frustration. The $2,500,000 team hit a dismal .225. was better at bat than in the field. For the first time in his illustrious career, crusty Casey Stengel, 71, seemed unable to do anything right. "I start my best pitcher," he complained, "and what happens? Right away they get five runs off him." Somebody told Stengel that a photographer had been assigned to cover...
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1931. The allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate...