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Last year the Crimson failed to place in the top ten, and the chances for a high finish in tomorrow's match are pretty bleak. Yale, Penn State, and Navy are the leading contenders for the team title...
...archrivals it is barely a step from the wet cobblestones of the town that Joe dares not name to the even more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...
Widespread in hard-hit Detroit is a bleak pessimism that contrasts sharply with the city's traditional Midwestern spirit. Detroiters do not count their city as especially beautiful or rich in culture, but they treasure its name for thrust, energy, confidence. Their favorite adjective: "dynamic." For generations young men leaving farms and small towns in the Midwest and the South have headed hopefully for bustling Detroit. One of the city's most cherished residents is a relentlessly optimistic versifier, Edgar Guest...
...through a dismal winter, strangled by heavy snows, pelted by freezing rains, chilblained and miserable. But what set Washington apart in its eagerness for spring was the Administration's expectation of economic upturn that would bring the U.S. out of a recession that would be forever associated with bleak Winter...
Bounding off a Soviet TU-104 jet airliner at Moscow airport, Comedian Bob Hope got a bleak stare from a heavily bearded Russian when he asked: "How're you fixed for blades?" So it went for his seven-day visit to shoot film for his April 5 NBC show. Hope's Western brand of humor was largely wasted on the Russians, even when translated, but his running quips on Soviet life traveled well to the folks back home...