Word: bleaknesses
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...smiled, and his face for a moment was not wholly bleak...
After Vanderbilt, the best job Dinah could get in Manhattan was as an unpaid singer on a local radio station. Months later, on a bleak New Year's Eve when she had got down to her last nickel, she almost committed suicide...
...transportation shortages will halt many an established flow of products, leaving bleak bare spots on store shelves...
...Washington, "thin sharp remnants of the afternoon's cold wind dither across bleak LaFayette Square directly in front of the White House; tree limbs stick up bare and stark above the scant light of the posted lamps. . . . There is a silent deliberation in the movement of the cars. . . . Hundreds of pedestrians in a steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough...
...Tokyo radio. A Japanese correspondent on Kiska reported that U.S. bombers were visiting the island two or three times a day, dropping their loads through the fog; that roads were being built across the black, treeless hills; that Japanese troops were unhappy over the prospect of a winter on bleak Kiska. "The loneliness in this remote northern base is hard to imagine back home," complained the writer...