Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 40% from its peak of $198 an ounce. In three chaotic days of trading last week, gold fell $14 on the London market, reaching a 31-month low of $105.50 an ounce. Though the price recovered to $111 by week's end, that is still a dismal figure for goldbugs, who not long ago were forecasting prices of $300 or more...
...Thomas Murphy guessed that 1976 sales, including imports, might rise to 10,250,000 cars. Since then, he has raised his forecast to "at least 10,500,000." Other auto executives foresee sales of 10,600,000 this year. Either prediction would place 1976 far above 1975's dismal sales of 8,600,000 and make this year the industry's third best ever (the record is 11,350,000 cars sold...
...relatively new field of psycho-biography is already cluttered with dismal studies such as Freud and Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Twenty-Eight President of the United States. In that text the authors explain the U.S.'s decision to go to war against Germany in 1916 as a function of Wilson's urge to satisfy charges of libido while pleasing his Superego. Others, like the Georges' study of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, are much more subtle; they present the subject's boyhood background and then use psychological imprints as keys to understanding formerly inexplicable courses of action in later...
...looked like the 'Cliffe had run aground on Tuesday as the sailors tallied several last-place finishes and was a dismal eighth out of thirteen competitors...
...slaveships, plantations, revolts, the crushed hopes of an oppressed people always bubbling up nonetheless through chains and cigarette smoke and broken refrigerators. These writers' best verse is narrative and pithy and stabbing, like "Miles to Go" by Marc Roberts (Diaspora's editor) which moves tightly, inexorably, raspingly, through one dismal day of a ghetto woman's life and ends...