Word: bleaknesses
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Just five events earlier, American prospects had looked bleak indeed. Taylor's two sprint victories and a surprise triumph by Cambridge's Jim Parker in the high hurdles had given the English a 6-4 lead. The Americans were faced with the task of taking four of the last five events to avoid defeat...
...society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall in the marketplace, when he is not thundering harangues against Alison and her upper-middle-class family and friends. His wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears...
...trip he made last week was the kind Duplessis took often, and carried off well, at once political fence mending and approving official inspection of Quebec's industrial progress, which he had earnestly nourished. Boarding a Dakota, he flew north over the bleak vastness of the northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled...
...Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills...
...Both the Queen and Prince Philip have always been anxious to have more children, and they are very happy about it." said a palace spokesman. Most everybody in Britain apparently felt the same way. When the 33-year-old Queen and her family withdrew for the weekend to bleak Balmoral Castle, Scotland, thousands of curious tourists jammed the neighborhood, and extra police were rushed to Balmoral to fend off rubbernecks...