Word: bleaknesses
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Thus the story ran around the earth. Palestinians prayed each in his separate fashion, in church, synagogue and mosque," for the man who had gone. Indians saw "a bleak sad future" - they voiced their fore boding to passing G.I.s: "Sahib very bad news. Your President is dead ... a hard working man for war, a friend of poor...
...flashed full of human light and meaning. There is a row of mournfully dazed, wounded men in a boat, their shoulders festooned by a long sheetlike strip of white cloth. There are Japanese prisoners, by that fact presumably among the softest defenders of their island; and in their bleak, barrelbodied, flintlike power you will recognize if you never did before that the enemy is indeed tough. There is a closeup of a bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There...
...bleak day in December 1941 when Don Ascanio Colonna, the titled, haughty Italian Ambassador to the U.S., walked out of his embassy, Antonino Celotto was very sad. Faithful Antonino, who had served four ambassadors as embassy caretaker, had watched white-faced Don Ascanio burning the embassy's papers. Now Italy, at war with the U.S., had cut the last bond...
...domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...
There is fantasy, sweeping and bleak, on the top of Baldy Mountain when John the Witch Boy crawls up from his Stygian haunts to search for his mountain lass; tangy amusement at the cracker barrel and at the revival meeting. There is rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only...