Word: dismalness
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...York Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fate-until their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my life-not even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year...
...wealthy who could afford expensive apartments and gain club admittance, Harvard life was quite enjoyable. But those on the other side of the University tracks found Cambridge a dismal place, from their rooms in "rat houses," lofts of buildings in the Square. And when the commons in Memorial Hall closed because it was losing money, they could eat only in the beaneries of the Square...
...18th century there had emerged in England a demi-reputable tradition of the "dismal trader," although for a long time the undertaker used to inspire communal shudders (in ancient Rome he was barred from politics). Now he had become "a strong, presentable man with a good suit of black clothes of his own"-and the scene was set for The Great American Funeral...
...they will move the show to NBC. And CBS's Stanton is equally busy trying to keep the show on CBS. Instead of becoming memorable as the year TV came of age, this season may go down in history as the one in which TV took the same dismal turn as radio and lost itself in an endless morass of giveaway shows...
After their dismal showing in the Davis Cup challenge round, U.S. tennis players hardly figured to stand a chance in their own national championship. Australia's Lew Hoad, with his big, booming game, and Ken Rosewall, with his classic ground shots, looked too hot to handle. Ex-Champions Seixas and Trabert should have been completely outclassed...