Word: joyless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...
...them looked happy. Those radiant, laughing faces which you see exhibited in so many Soviet propaganda pamphlets are sheer humbug. The people of Russia don't look like that. They look uniformly disgruntled and unhappy. It is plainly written on their faces that they lead joyless lives...