Word: bleaknesses
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Most anxious not to return (because of the bleak life in Germany) and most stuffy about arrangements were the Germans. In New York, where the Drottningholm was making ready to carry 940 Axis repatriates home via Lisbon, they denounced so loudly the mixing of diplomats and notables that the sailing was all balled up. In Brazil they protested the accommodations on a ship especially refurbished for a Brazilian-Axis exchange via Lisbon. In other South American countries, acting on their own initiative, they asked permission to stay even if interned. Others wangled or wandered into Argentina and Chile, only...
...bleak 1942, they have fallen into habits of worrying and bickering. The worker says that the rich (who are going rapidly bankrupt) are nevertheless too rich. The rich men are mostly extremely gallant and polite, but the less gallant of them say that the worker working 50 or more hours a week is a slacker if occasionally he takes...
...ways to build the ships. Kaiser, rapid-fire builder of Boulder, Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, was the man they needed-and got. He worked 16-hour days, borrowed whirler cranes and other machinery from Grand Coulee, pounded between California and Washington commuter-fashion. Four months after Kaiser started, bleak mud flats were lofty ways. In January-13 months after the yard contract was signed-the first British ship was completed at Richmond...
Some 1,500 workers swarmed over her vast bulk, twisting her elegance into a bleak wartime pattern for the Navy. Then one bright, blithe afternoon this week a puff of smoke drifted across her promenade deck. A few minutes later, the deck was completely ablaze. After two and a half years of idling at a Manhattan pier, the Lafayette (as the U.S. had renamed the Normandie), a ship into which the French had poured $60,000,000 and some 2,500,000 man-days of labor, was in danger of turning into a fire-blackened hulk...
...sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty of his shepherd neighbors, who grazed their flocks among Nova Scotia's bleak hills, would be greatly relieved...