Word: dismalness
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Keep Out. As the days wore on, the rumor spread that the princess herself had ordered the blackout in retaliation for the mob scene at the airport ("And that is not far from the truth," admitted an embassy official in private). The dismal climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty...
...Dainty June, life without Mother was dismal. An awkward adolescent, she had grown out of her job as a child hoofer. Hungry, she split with her husband, signed on as a marathon dancer near Boston. Just as the stage had been June's nursery, the marathon became her college, and she gives an effective description of one of the weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour...
...varsity track team opened the spring season with the bleakest prospects in years. A dismal winter season, climaxed by a weak fifth-place finish in the indoor Heptagonals and a scoreless performance in the IC4A championship, had removed the Crimson from serious consideration as a power in Eastern track...
Small movements in the cockpit will make magnified sounds. The friction of his clothing as he moves sounds as if the cloth is tearing. He will be alone to an unprecedented degree in unfathomable isolation and in a state of dismal loneliness, where he and all of his perceptions are isolated from all things common to man's past experience...
Back from a successful Florida trip with a new spirit of "togetherness," the varsity track squad has the potential and the depth to make its followers forget about the dismal winter season just ended. The team returned from the South with a surprisingly large number of new-found assets and its smallest injury list since last December...