Word: dismalness
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...dismal Geneva situation left it squarely up to President Kennedy to make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether or not to resume U.S. nuclear testing in lieu of a test-ban agreement. But before any such decision could be made, it was necessary to understand the long and tortured history of the Geneva talks...
...Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...
This is how things stand near the end of a dismal season...
EXETER: The first ten minutes of Make Mire Mink are sickeningly dismal, as only British farce can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining 80 minutes, happy to tell, are sheer joy. Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding-house occupants on a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds, naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...
...fears from themselves have always enjoyed analysis by adolescents, and this review can only be as ostentatious as my traumae will permit it to be (there's embarrassing personal stuff for you); but I offer two thoughts for self-flagellation. First, that Bogart pictures (leaving out of consideration such dismal offerings as Crime Doesn't Pay and High Sierra) need to be more seriously examined for the qualities that allow them to endure beyond their showings in the 'forties, and sporadic reincarnation on the Late Late Show; for I contend that they "touch immortality" in many ways that ought...