Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...professors of the "dismal science" have always scotched this sunny Stevenson couplet. To such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts...
...Paris, Garry Davis let the Trouillas crusaders in for a dismal anticlimax. In the face of waning public attention, Garry said he was giving up organizational work for a period of study and meditation. "I do not know for how long," he elaborated. "I shall return when I consider myself ready for the second step, whatever that...
...begun, as a matter of fact, on a sour note. Critics agreed that the opening production of Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout and Tenor Ramon Vinay, was an unduly damp and dismal affair, even though it rained that night. But the second night's show was Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which had not had a major U.S. production for 16 years, and it was something to talk about...
Every day our mail brings at least one new invitation (inside two envelopes) and we inevitably find it a dismal experience to open it and discover who went this time. Not only does it mean something else that must be answered, not only does it involve further financial sacrifice, not only does it mean the loss of a drinking companion--from a purely objective point of view means that some unsuspecting sentimentalist is voluntarily signing away his freedom...