Word: dismalness
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Portland was hardly aware that it even had an all-girl orchestra before the girls departed, and managed to raise only a dismal $6,100 toward the tour expenses. As a result, each girl dug up-by borrowing, selling instruments, etc., some $1,500 of her own, and stands to spend it all. But Portland knows better now, will parade the girls through downtown streets when they get home next week, already has scheduled a big fund-raising concert two days after homecoming. After that? "This is only the beginning," says Sirpo. "We still have to go to South America...
...Europe was to prevent the firm establishment of a Western European alliance including a rearmed West Germany. With the ratification of the Paris accords, and the admission of the West German Republic into the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (TIME, May 23), those five years of Russian effort ended in dismal failure...
...book leaves no doubt that, after its dismal beginning, the WAC came to be an established and respected branch of the Army. General Douglas MacArthur described the WACs in his command as "my best soldiers." Still another tribute came when the Army Ground Forces command, long the bitter opponent of the women's service, took the lead in urging that the WAC ought to be a permanent part of the Army...
...Chiang is a dismal egotist with a devoted following of stupid, ruthless, cowardly gangsters. Chiang & Co. can no more be offered to the free world as China's answer to Communism than Senator McCarthy can be tolerated as America's answer. Shame on you for publishing that tearful eulogy...
...publicly, as Chamberlain pushed on to the folly of Munich. Eden kept his objections to himself, while the Nazis and Fascists gloated over the political passing of "Lord Eyelashes." But Churchill at least understood and mourned the lost opportunity. "There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender . . . Now he was gone. I watched the daylight creep slowly in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death...