Word: bleaknesses
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This week, President Harry Truman gravely confirmed the bleak facts of mounting tension between the U.S. and Soviet Russia. He summoned a special joint session of Congress to hear a report from him in person on the critical foreign situation...
...bleak city hall of Kozane, a northern Greek mountain town, 13 peasants stood before a U. N. field team. The peasants had been hostages of General Markos Vafiades' Communist Andartes. In the mixed Greek-Slav-Albanian dialect of the Macedonian border people, they haltingly told their story...
What ingredients! What characters! An innocent man, convicted of murder, who is incarcerated for twelve bleak years. A wife who abandons him. A mother who never lost faith, and who scrubbed floors for defense money. . . . But the story gets better! And here is where we all come in: "A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a movie." The picture has already been made (Call Northside...
...moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten had remodeled as a house. There they plunged into Peter Grimes. Slater would work up in a bedroom, and shout down to Benjy, lolling on the grass, "How do you like this line?" They took long walks over the bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with his own ideas. Britten gets his themes in bed, on a bus or train, anywhere, believes strongly in letting them sort themselves out while he sleeps. "Usually I have the music complete in my head before...
There's only one undefeated Varsity in town this morning. By crushing Navy 50-25 in its own pool, the swimming team maintained winning ways in a weekend otherwise generally bleak for College sports...