Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the most optimistic of the Unity House conferees could really believe that such measures, alone, would do the job. Obviously needed to help the honest, bona fide leaders of big labor was corrective labor legislation-and that, in the most dismal failure of 1958, was precisely what the Congress of the U.S. had refused to approve...
First issued in 1937 and now published for the first time in the U.S., Orwell's book, like James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, has become a period classic, evoking for the middle-aged a dismal time of economic troubles, when sensitive men became angry about the near starvation of their near neighbors. Agee's book dealt with Southern sharecroppers in the U.S. Orwell's people had an even smaller share in any crop: they were the barely fed and scarcely tolerated unemployed of England. What Benjamin Disraeli called England...
...sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman who liked to sit in the window of the Carlton on dismal days in order to have the pleasure of "seeing it rain on the damned people...
Once again, we have before us an example of dismal miscalculation in Washington...
...once said. He has a cat's ability to land on his feet. Twenty-one months ago, only the intervention of the U.S. saved him from being turned out of power by the invading Franco-British-Israeli forces. His proud army, his vaunted Soviet equipment, lay in dismal ruin. Only after measuring the U.S. reaction did the Russians begin to bluster. The U.S. saved his neck, but Nasser credited Moscow, and soon began boasting of the Egyptian "victory" at Port Said, where the British had routed his forces...