Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder Parents is #1. As for this magazine's dismal appeal among college students--it's probably a good thing undergrads don't subscribe. Simplifying the parental world with alluring adolescent terms, Parents may make even the youngest readers want to conceive...
Thirteen years ago, on a dismal Spring day, I received the crushing news that I would never become a sorority girl. Not a perfectly manicured Kappa Kappa Gamma nor a sporty Sigma Kappa; nor even a borderline-cool Kappa Alpha Theta. A shy freshman at Dartmouth College, I had been rejected by those vaunted sisterhoods in the first round of pledge-season cuts. Was it my clothes? Did I say something wrong? Now that I had officially been deemed an outcast like Hester Prynne, I sulked in my dorm room for days, convinced my social life was over before...
...Improv Asylum Theater is hosting a sketch comedy act by Ace Theatricals. "Hey, There is Free Food in the Conference Room," is a great way to fuse laughter into an otherwise dismal Harvard night. 216 Hanover St. 263-6887. 6 p.m. $7 cover...
...roam through the private lives of public officials. The idiotic pursuit of the diplomat Richard Holbrooke, our proposed ambassador to the United Nations, a man who has spent most of the past 40 years working for the government only to have his whole life investigated anew, is the latest dismal consequence of uninhibited and unaccountable prosecutorial authority...
...suffer under the burden of exams and term papers, but these winter months seem prime time for the onset of existential malaise. One friend suggested to me that The Crimson run a headline announcing, "Hell Freezes Over," in the aftermath of last week's ice storm, which left dismal Cambridge ensconced in slippery crystal...