Word: dolefullness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin's aim on his five-day visit was to link this doleful past with a more hopeful future. Yet even that future is unsettled, mainly because the relationship between Tel Aviv and Bonn appears to be changing. No European nation has closer ties with Israel than does the...
He is still notably opaque for a man in public life. The private personality behind the long face, doleful eyes and resonant voice is known only to his family and a few close friends, though one crony insists: "There is no such thing as an off-the-record Scoop. What...
As the new year began, moreover, the American manufacturers were surrounded by doleful statistics: 14 assembly plants shut down; almost 300,000 assemblers, clerks, accountants, designers and middle-level managers-20% of the industry's work force-laid off; 1.7 million unsold cars sitting in factory and dealer lots...
On the other hand, he introduced me to a political science teacher, a smiling, unpretentious, gentle-seeming man with a doleful tale of student criticism. "I used to not take much account of specific students, and they criticized me," he said. "Some in class, some after class, some with posters...
These are not the best of times for President Nguyen Van Thieu. Since the 1973 Peace Accords were signed in Paris, the opposing sides in South Viet Nam have methodically killed each other at a doleful rate of 4,000 a month. What makes the fighting utterly futile is the...