Word: dismalness
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Both first and second squads are determined to overcome the dismal fate predicted for Harvard by early-season journalistic paperwork. Yesterday, Yovicsin expressed the attitude of the team at a football banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston: "The experts think we're a second division club," he said, "but the players...
Today's Siberia contains remnants of the past. There are still dismal, muddy villages like those where Dostoevsky and other political exiles suffered their dark night of the soul. Most of the Communist labor camps have been closed, but the ghosts of those who died in them are as palpable as the polar blizzards heralding Siberia's long winter. The cities are still cluttered with the wooden hovels of yesteryear, peasant women still do their laundry in the icy rivers, and men still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes...
Through a dismal midnight drizzle, the chartered DC-6B taxied toward the terminal building at Philadelphia's International Airport, with its cargo of the worst baseball team in the big leagues. The Philadelphia Phillies had just won a game. But the lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan...
Headquarters of Communism's first postwar political commissariat in Berlin was on the second floor of a dismal concrete building on a thoroughfare named, of all things, Wallstrasse-Wall Street. From these few dingy rooms, the faithful Ulbricht, now sporting a wispy mustache and a pointed little Lenin beard, sent his agents fanning out to grab control-first of the Berlin city administration, then of every town and city in the Soviet zone...
Flying home to Chicago to receive the Czechoslovak National Council of America's Masaryk Award for "inspired leadership in the cause of freedom," Illinois' snow-topped Senator Paul H. Douglas, 69, conclusively proved that a lifelong devotion to the "dismal science" of economics need not make a man as stuffy as a Cook County ballot box. Extending a glad hand and a twinkly toe to a comely procession of native-costumed constituents, the old Marine hero determinedly fought his way through the intricate steps of a beseda...