Word: bleakness
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Four months later, Pfc. Whitehouse was shipped off to Newfoundland. He found it a bleak and lonely post, particularly in spring and summer. To while away the dull evenings, he wrote long letters to Rose. Then one day he met Nurse Theresa St. Croix: "I just met her and had a few dates and that was that...
...Achtung . . . Achtung . . . Achtung. . . ." The bleak warning rolled endlessly from German loudspeakers as the Allied air offensive rolled endlessly on against German oil and transport...
...history was repeating itself. Thirty years before, the Russians had driven into the bleak, lake-studded land of many a Junker overlord and his cannon-fodder peasant. In August 1914, General Paul Rennenkampf's Russian army attacked from the east, General Alexander Samsonov from the south. The Germans were routed in the first battle...
...Third Army front in France, soldiers of the 35th Infantry Division eyed a bleak chateau in no man's land and waited for night to fall. There were children in the house-81 of them, by best reports-and they had to be taken...
...Oxford voice introduced himself with a visiting card phonetically inscribed "Au Dung" and wandered through battle areas discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges with his companion. Novelist Christopher Isherwood ("Y Hsiao Wu"). In 1936 Icelanders watched the same outlander read the works of Lord Byron while jogging through their bleak countryside on a pony. In 1937 he worked as a censor in the Spanish Loyalist Government. In 1940 this unusual apparition settled improbably in Brooklyn...