Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment the mad boss steps off his Air China jet in Los Angeles this week on the first stage of a scheduled American tour, he knows he will be in the cross hairs of U.S. anger at China's dismal human-rights record and allegations of nuclear espionage. "Let [Americans] vent their anger," said Zhu in a press conference last month. "I will go to tell the truth...
...executions; what they encountered on the other side of the frontier was a teeming mess of poverty, hunger and disease. In Rozaje refugees drifted through the streets, hungry and shell-shocked; some would come across small obstacles and simply stop and weep. Doctors scrambled to prevent the crowding and dismal sanitation from causing a tuberculosis epidemic, but their efforts seemed of little use. "People don't even have spoons, so everyone eats from one bowl. Women are giving birth next to men with TB. It is an epidemiological bomb," said a local doctor. Added another: "This is hell...
...roadside on the way to Rozaje. On Friday NATO spokesman Shea reported that a six-mile line of some 25,000 refugees had formed on the border with Macedonia. "We're seeing ladies in slippers, children with no shoes and socks," he said. In Albania the refugees' dismal plight was further prolonged by the authorities' cumbersome registration procedures. Even as refugees flowed over the borders at the rate of 20,000 a day, officials warned of many more ethnic Albanians still displaced from their homes in Kosovo, trapped in the killing fields and unable to make their way out. Last...
What's up with the weather? The week that Harvard students actually leave for spring break, the weather starts becoming nice. Sorry, not nice--gorgeous. But Dartboard's not complaining, because the weather that has enveloped usually dismal Cambridge has been hanging around for the last couple of weeks. And from throwing around the ol' pigskin to getting that envious tan to even doing homework, Harvard students are finding that outside is the place...
...prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...