Word: bleaknesses
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...written in what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...
...assault on Sicily had begun. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander in North Africa, had set in motion the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted-not excepting Xerxes' expedition against Greece (1,000 boats, 200,000 men). Now for a few hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must wait for the fall of the dice, wondering whether he has anticipated everything, what will go wrong, how well reality will fit the shape of his intricate, painstaking plans...
...hards who intended to go away for a vacation, whether or no, found the outlook bleak...
...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...
Croxburn was a bleak London suburb made bleaker by the Blitz. Its people-many of them - were phlegmatic busybodies made vicious by the strain of war. In the cold winter of 1942, with the side walks filmed with ice, weary infidelities in the cold houses, grafting in the desultory municipal government, train service rotten and winter colds everywhere, murder was possible. In Croxburn it happened...