Word: grim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the spectre of Sputnik darkening their countenances, Congressmen and grim pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...Paris grim-faced Premier Pierre Pflimlin hastily called an emergency Cabinet meeting to deal with the second uprising against the Fourth Republic in twelve days. Early next morning Pflimlin's tape-recorded voice boomed out from the radios of France condemning the Corsican insurgents as "a handful of rebels" who "are seeking to drag us down the slope which leads to civil...
Only a few sober observers faced the grim reality: a handful of disciplined and dedicated Communists were brazenly but legally taking over a free country whose economy is dependent on U.S. aid, whose troops are being trained by a French military mission, whose 2,000,000 citizens have hardly heard of Marx and Lenin, and do not know what a Communist is. They only know that they are poor, and when they get the vote, many of them cast it for "the other party," which in Laos, as in so many of the world's underdeveloped countries, means...
...looked like the top man in his trade. With his countryman Merv Lincoln tagging along behind him, Herb loped over the grassy turf track with the stride of an astonished ostrich. He stuck to the early pacemakers with ease. When Texas' Drew Dunlap and Maryland's Burr Grim pulled him through a 2:00.5 first half, Herb knew he was running a hot mile. In the third quarter, his pacemakers began to burn out, and Herb went into business for himself. He opened a steadily widening lead, finished 20 yds. in front of Lincoln, who was clocked...
...since "English ones might not have the right ring"), 15 well-disciplined M.A.T. pros, descendants of the group that "Method" Director Konstantin Stanislavsky helped to found 60 years ago, gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope of a Soviet future. And Gayev and Madame Ranevskaya, usually played as cultivated bumblers, appear as sober...