Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third husband, Brajesh Singh, who died last fall in Moscow of a heart attack: "As you lay in your coffin in our dismal Moscow crematorium, strangers came up to look at your calm, beautiful face. It was very cold, and we stood there in fur coats ... all of you, my dear friends from the unfortunate Institute of World Literature...
...Dismal Disunity. The successful campaign represented more than personal victory for Shafer. Along with the 50,000 patronage jobs he controls as Governor, it added up to strengthened leadership over Pennsylvania's resurgent Republican Party. Both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson carried Pennsylvania and its bagful of electoral votes largely because of Democratic strength in Philadelphia. But in the same election last week that showed Shafer's strength, Philadelphia Democrats displayed dismal disunity: the regular party's nominee for mayor, Alexander Hemphill, was beaten nearly 2 to 1 by Mayor Jim Tate for the Democratic nomination. Republican...
Reno's life from that day forward was a dismal descent into dishonor...
...Harvard baseball team matched Saturday's dismal weather with some uninspired playing as they barely managed to squeeze a run across in the tenth inning to edge Penn, 5-4, at Splinter Stadium...
...rate (11.2%), its third highest illiteracy rate (50%), its third lowest per-capita income ($285), and one of its most ruinous rates of inflation (41%). About 1% of Brazilian landowners control 47% of the farm land. Side by side with a wealthy aristocracy dwell filth, disease and poverty so dismal that they rob men even of the urge to protest. The average life span is 55 compared with 72 for advanced countries, and 40% of all Brazilians have been afflicted with a major disease...