Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling off gilt-edged securities. The company was General Motors, whose annual sales would constitute a gross national product bigger than that of, say, Switzerland or South Africa if it were a country instead of the largest business corporation on earth. When the U.A.W. struck GM for two grim months in 1970, the U.S. economy nearly stopped dead in its tracks...
...dark vision, the year 1984 would see the triumph of totalitarianism in Europe-an era of Newspeak and Doublethink, of dictatorial cruelty and dehumanizing coercion. That fateful year is now little more than a decade away, and it seems less and less plausible that Orwell's grim prophecy will be proved correct. William Davis, German-born editor of Britain's national humor magazine Punch, has a somewhat cheerier view of what 1984 will really be like. His imaginary scenario, written for TIME...
...Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent in five to ten deprogrammers at a time to work...
...long frustrating night for J. Mervyn Harris. He had known all along that although Nether Providence needed reapportionment badly, when the ward leaders and township commissioners finally sat down to the grim business of taking from some and giving to others, it would be brutal. He had dreaded the meeting for days, and had prepared four separate plans after throwing out dozens. He had expected it to be rough and it was worse...
...GROUPS bemoan their lack of sex, they ogle the neighboring exceptions, the happily wedlocked without the ritual--the couples who bring special coffee to breakfast, grim-faced and silent, hugging each other's company like a bad habit--and then back away as if from a scary "No Trespassing" sign. One brand of psychological androgyny shudders at another more extreme form, the two becoming...