Word: bleaknesses
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...such straw appeared when Prince Bernhard heard of a wondrous cure performed upon a friend's tuberculous daughter by a woman named Greet Hofmans. Spinster Hofmans (now 61) was a mild-mannered, harsh-voiced woman who was born to poverty and spent a bleak childhood nursing a sick mother. In middle age, after an unrewarding life as a social worker and factory hand, she moved to Holland's hard-bitten north, where piety and superstition often walk hand in hand. There, she said, she had a personal talk with God who offered her miraculous powers for the benefit...
...during the same period last year. More disturbing to Zionists than the rise itself is the fact that most of the emigrants were well-established veterans with skills the little country can ill afford to lose. Most were doctors, dentists, businessmen, hotelkeepers, who gave high taxes and a bleak economic future as chief reasons for leaving. Most favored destinations: the U.S., South America, West Germany...
...believe what the old grads tell you, men. They are trying to lure us into their illusory way of thinking, but we must face both sides of the truth: not only is the future bleak; it is hardly more than a bitter echo of the past...
Another issue was the depression, which began as the Class was in the midst of its College career and which presented a bleak picture of unemployment when '31 graduated. The Placement Office was expanded at the time, in an effort to give the undergraduate information about the opportunities that did exist...
...south, Siberia has potential mineral, agricultural and electric-power resources beyond calculation. But its winters are the coldest on earth. In the past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid the foundations of a series of vast industrial enterprises. To develop this industry, the Soviet Union now needs the skills and crafts...