Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once before, when all seemed bleakest, they had pulled a rabbit out of a hat. This time, Egyptian, Israeli and U.S. negotiators came up empty. There was no last-minute miracle; for the time being, at least, there would be no signing of an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty on the slopes of Mount Sinai or anywhere else, no end to three decades of deep hostility and open conflict...
Despite the dollar's steadying at week's end, no one could be sure the improvement would continue. The bleakest aspect of the fall is that no measures designed to strengthen the dollar seem to work any more. The U.S. at the start of the year began buying unwanted dollars to prop up their price; that intervention, which Europeans insisted was too brief, accomplished nothing. The Swiss in the past two weeks have taken a series of drastic steps to stop the rise of the Swiss franc against the dollar; among other things, they lowered interest rates...
Caliban's words to the intruders on his island seem uniquely fitted to one of the bleakest acts of cultural colonization in history: the English subjugation of Ireland, which began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. In the flowering of Irish monastic culture during what were once routinely called the Dark Ages, the visual arts in Ireland had reached a splendor unequaled in the rest of Europe. But war, burning and pillage destroyed most of the relics...
...neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust...
...best the figures only show the situation worsening at a slower pace. Last year, about 21 serious crimes were committed every minute; a violent crime like rape or assault, every 31 seconds. The FBI clocked one murder every 26 minutes. The bleakest news in the report: only a fifth of last year's 11.3 million serious crimes resulted in arrest...