Word: bleakness
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Harry Truman's abrupt termination of Lend-Lease (TIME, Aug. 27) reverberated around the world. Most nations took it philosophically, but Britain was hurt and worried. The blow fell while Britain was tightening its belt against a winter of bleak prospects (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Russians had brought progress to Outer Mongolia in the form of airplanes, machine guns and socialism. Into Inner Mongolia, the ancient land of temple gongs, ten-foot-long ceremonial horns, and monks chanting prayers by lonely lamaseries, the Japanese introduced neon signs, phonographs and beer halls. In the bleak steppe winters they shivered and dreamed of cherry blossoms. They also feverishly built empire...
Soon after seeing murder done through a bleak window, Deanna Durbin (the lady) gets off the train, and begins a half-farcical, half-melodramatic hunt for the killer. She is variously helped and hin dered by assorted menaces, red herrings and foozlebrains - like Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea (as two brothers who loathe each other), George Coulouris (a devilish butler), Allen Jenkins (a sinister chauffeur), David Bruce (a mystery author), and Edward Everett Horton (Edward Everett Horton...
...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...
...woke up, looked around unsteadily, picked up his gold-braided cap, shuffled off. Seven hours later, shorn of his Marshal's uniform, he deplaned at bleak Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees...