Word: dismalness
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When Bush was failing as an investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...
Less than one week after the Crimson’s dismal showing at the Beanpot and one day after the team’s agonizing 3-2 loss to RPI—and with rumors swirling of the A-Rod trade to the Yankees—Bright Hockey Center seemed a lot chillier than usual for the 1,626 in attendance...
Ashikaga Yoshimasa may have been the worst of the shoguns. In his 30-year reign as Japan's supreme military commander (1443-1473), the power of the shogunate declined to a dismal low point, fracturing the empire into a patchwork of squabbling fiefdoms. Terrible famines ravaged the imperial capital of Kyoto and its surrounding provinces, and Yoshimasa did nothing to alleviate the suffering. His penchant for luxury brought the empire to the edge of financial ruin. When he finally realized that he was unfit to rule and decided to abdicate, his indecisiveness about naming a successor provoked the 10-year...
Faced with the dismal prospect of all her friends attending the House formal stag, in 1992, a senior in Leverett House realized that unless she took action, her peers would be doomed to singledom. With an altruistic spirit, this dating activist created a free—and appropriately confidential—dating service to match Leverett House members with their hopeful admirers...
...matter what happens to Harvard over the next two and a half weeks, one thing is certain: the ECAC has been unpredictable down the stretch. That’s why the Crimson is finding reasons to forget about its recent dismal record...