Word: bleakness
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Excessive Speechifying. On his first trip to South America in twelve years, Castro followed a two-week itinerary that took him north through Chile's bleak mining country, then south for tours of factories and talks with stu dents, and finally for a cruise on a destroyer with his host, Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...before nameless authorities, and emphasis on the miniscule occurrences that bring relief from suffering. Ivan finds a hacksaw blade, gets a little tobacco, and uses his favorite spoon. These few moments in Ivan's day when he feels he can do something that he wants to do punctuate the bleak narrative description of camp routine...
...sinful" -and the handful of government bureaucrats with their forms and seals pettily executing justice and collecting taxes in moldering ducal palaces. Time has stuck at late feudalism. In "an aura of stopped drains and tinkling bells," bony, dull-eyed children full of resentment grow into "tentative" men and "bleak, stubborn women" whose faces resemble eroded hillsides...
...spite of their heated arguments about the moon's origin, history and composition, lunar scientists usually agree on one point; that the moon is a bleak, waterless place, a million times dryer, as one researcher put it, than the Gobi Desert. That idea was challenged last week, as two Rice University scientists disclosed that they had detected the first evidence of water on the moon...
...bleak coast of the Barents Sea, where the Soviet Union shares a common border with Norway near the roof of the world, the Norwegian defense force of 400 men is frequently witness to a disturbing scene. They watch on radar as the Soviets practice assaults on the coast of their Kola Peninsula, some 300 miles away. In the Soviet war games, the attacking force is always victorious and the defenders are always defeated...