Word: bleakness
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High behind the thronging shipyards, docks and naval works of Hampton Roads, Va. stands a bleak hillside cemetery. In the yellow Virginia soil, in row on row of new-heaped graves (already there are over 50), lie the bodies of German U-boat crews...
...story of The Unvanquished is the story of Washington's growth in clarity and unity during the critical fortnight when his shattered forces ("an alien army in an alien land") retreated across New Jersey. "On the bleak road he now traveled a fortitude was required that could draw no sustenance from the past. . . . All that mattered now was to exist...
What were the Japs doing in their newly won footholds in the western Aleutians, the bleak little islands of Attu and Kiska? If the U.S. Army & Navy knew, they did not say. So the only news was from the Tokyo radio, and that was positively insulting. The Jap broadcasts said that Attu and Kiska had been renamed Atsuta and Narukam; that vegetable seeds and potatoes had been shipped in and that "this alone reveals that our action was not meant to be merely temporary"; that Japanese Navy headquarters had sent congratulations to the unnamed "supreme commander of ground forces...
...experiences that almost maniac desire for activity that from now on will alternate continually with melancholia and depression." He tries to hang himself with his belt. The job is too unpleasant. He begins to feel the true weight of "utter, bleak silence. It is only in prisons that air is so deaf...
Those Days Were Bleak. As head of a new Advisory Council for Scottish Industry, Tom Johnston accused the English of concentrating heavy industries in England, at the expense of Scotland. Between 1932 and 1937, 3,217 new factories were started in Britain, of which Scotland received only 127-while 133 Scottish factories were closing their doors. In 1941, 4,500,000 square feet of Scottish factory accommodation was allocated to storage and only 500,000 square feet to war production-a storage ratio of nine to one for Scotland, compared to a British ratio...