Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salzburg's first full-blown festival since 1937; last year's was a worthy try, but dismal. This year nostalgic Austrians hoped to recapture the pomp and glitter of pre-Anschluss Salzburg; what they got, judging by last week's opening performances, was a reasonable facsimile...
...Mexican Government's attempt to run the oil industry has been a dismal flop. Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos), the operating company, has been loaded with an administration of political lame ducks. Production has fallen, losses have skyrocketed. Mexico, which once exported 50% of its oil, now has barely enough for its own increased consumption. And it is in grave danger of running out of oil if Poza Rica, the one rich field, should go dry-as overworked fields sometimes...
With the words, "I refuse to comment further on politics because I don't want to get my father defeated in the next election," Miss Maybank brought the interview closer to Harvard Square. A Government major, she is faced with the dismal prospect of having slept through the Gov 9 exam, but thinks "the instructor is very cute." As for Gov I, she allowed. "I just love Professor Elliott,--Yandell, that is. I think he's wonderful...
...steel-hungry West Coast, the question of the year has been: Who will buy and operate the Government-owned $190,000,000 Geneva steel plant? Last week, in a room in one of Washington's dismal buildings, the West got a partial answer. Seven bids for the plant were opened by the War Assets Administration...
After a dry-as-dust opening barrage by Majority Leader Alban Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...