Word: bleakness
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...black and other minorities.) Morale also seems high in most places. A young lieutenant compared his life at Camp Casey with that at a "jock college." Closer to the DMZ, soldiers suffer from isolation, primitive facilities (hot baths once a week) and sheer boredom. It is at these bleak forward outposts that the U.S. would suffer its first casualties if North Korea were ever to launch a major attack. Thus, for the G.l.s based there, the boredom of a seemingly interminable truce may well be a blessing...
...recurrent dream, her narrator magically steps to observe a child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future can outdo that...
...talk with President Ford. Upon his arrival in Brussels, he said that he had gone there to tell the truth about matters in Portugal. Though he did not say so, the truth was that matters were still confused but that the prospects for the future of Portuguese democracy remained bleak...
Canada this year faces bleak economic prospects: inflation is running at an 11.1% annual rate, production growth seems likely to be zero, and unemployment is expected to rise from the current 7.2% to 10%. One major reason for all this is a peculiarly vicious circle: to keep up with inflation, workers have been demanding huge wage settlements that fuel further inflation. Strikes have also disrupted production enough to increase unemployment more than the recession alone would have done...
...figure very high up on any list of incompetent con men. It takes some of Oscar's and Nicky's own talent for self-destructiveness to bungle a story about their mismanaged capers, and Mike Nichols has spared no effort to this end. The Fortune is a bleak, frostbitten farce, desperate for invention and rather a sham...