Word: bleakness
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...textile sale at G.U.M., Moscow's massive principal department store, was the flashiest display yet in the new Soviet campaign to bolster morale at home with consumer goods long denied by the bleak succession of five-year plans. G.U.M. has been thronged by 125,000 to 200,000 lookers and shoppers a day since it opened three months ago in a Red Square building that looks more like the Louvre than a department store...
Clearing the Chest. Until recently, the outlook was bleak indeed for all these youngsters. They were spindle-limbed and undernourished, no matter how much they ate. and they were always coming down with bronchitis or pneumonia. As doctors were learning to treat the digestive troubles and the lung disorders in turn, new drugs appeared to help them, and now the outlook for the little patients is more hopeful...
Moore himself admits that he is trying out some new approaches, but denies any fundamental change of style. Discussing his helmeted king and his queen, a spatulate pair sitting in a sort of bleak majesty on a bench, he insists that the shapes of his figures are mostly determined by choice of material. Says he: "In bronze you start with space. In stone you start with a hunk of something, and work down ... In the King and Queen, I was trying to give the impression of a helmeted. almost masked head. The king's head contrasts with the body...
Aside from physical discomforts, Poonsters wanted a new building because they felt that more congenial surroundings would improve their writing. Though Lampoon humor had not yet become jaded, President Muir complained that a bleak atmosphere discouraged the editors. The Lampoon, he wrote during a campaign for donations, "tends to consist of one man who gets the paper out alone...
...outlook is not entirely bleak, however. McCurdy has two of the best distance men in the Ivy League, and he has a number of strong middle-distance men who may score points in the coming meets. The team is also fairly strong in certain field events...