Word: bleakness
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...that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time, questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend...
...African and Angolan representatives are expected to meet soon in the Cape Verde Islands to discuss not only the Cuban troop withdrawal, but South Africa's frequent raids into Angolan territory in search of SWAPO rebels. Whether the talks will contribute to a settlement is another matter. The bleak assessment from General Constand Viljoen, commander of the 20,000 South African troops fighting against SWAPO in Namibia, is that his occupying forces will not be withdrawn from the territory this year...
Against this bleak backdrop, there would appear to be only one route to rejuvenation for the afflicted fans: football magazines, the esteemed journals which hit newsstands in the early fall and offer companionship for an entire season...
These are bleak times for Harvard undergraduates While our friends at other colleges frolic on vocation or settle themselves in for a new term, the weeks ahead hold only anxiety and depression, as we scowl away in a gloomy series of library carrels...
...furniture and a central heating system. Exulted Smith: "Dorothy's story has tugged at the heartstrings of America." But the Ridgways were embarrassed; they pointed out that Parade had misrepresented their neighborhood as Roanoke's poorest, and insisted that their home was not, as Parade depicted it, "bleak." Further, Dorothy's check is augmented by Medicaid, and her parents receive public assistance totaling about $500 more a month; gifts may imperil the family's eligibility for relief. Said Mary Ridgway: "Others are worse off than us. I do not want people to think Dorothy was begging...