Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been winning its slow war of attrition against the terrorists and has curtailed the I.R.A.'s ability to attack military or police targets. Nonetheless, violence against "soft targets"-meaning stores, pubs and the like-has been on the increase. Christmas week turned out to be merely another grim episode in the I.R.A.'s attempt to force unity of the two Irelands through guerrilla warfare. On Monday morning alone, a dozen explosions ripped Belfast. Among the damaged targets were the city's best hotel (the Conway), a clothing factory, a furniture store, a supermarket, an antique shop...
...sanctity of the dollar has been virtually an article of the American faith. Fewer and fewer in the land still remember the grim days of the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt took the dollar off the gold standard, shocking the hard-money stalwarts in their plush club chairs around the U.S. Since then, however, Americans have grown accustomed to looking on smugly as other nations-among them proud England and mercurial France-devalued their currencies relative to the unchanging dollar. Last week the long-unthinkable finally happened: President Nixon announced that the dollar would be devalued...
...green. Steampipes were left uncovered, and a number of people were severely burned. Public toilets were eliminated from the ground floors and playgrounds, and out of either urgency or irritation, children resorted to elevators or hallways to urinate. Cramming 12,000 people into 57 acres of land exacerbated already grim social problems...
When the U.K. and France acted, Dulles erupted in '"hostility amounting almost to frenzy. There may have been other reasons. Perhaps the grim disease which was later to prove mortal had affected his psychological and intellectual equilibrium. Perhaps the spectre of Soviet Russia, now armed with the terrible nuclear weapon, had begun to haunt his dreams. He clearly lost his temper; he may also have lost his nerve. In any event, we and our French allies were now to face an attack, skillfully devised and powerfully executed, in which the protagonists were the Russian and American Governments, acting together...
...years specialists in Birmingham have been giving patients with lung diseases this grim advice: "Leave the city or die." The air is among the worst in the U.S. even on good days, but last week really dramatized the reason for the doctors' concern. On Monday night an atmospheric inversion settled over the city. The sky turned reddish-brown, as clouds of ash, soot, and foundry dust produced by the city's factories were trapped beneath. By Tuesday, the pollution level had risen to 771 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air, nearly four times the level...