Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young men and women of Harvard, a new and beguiling scenario is being written these days in key spots throughout this land. It's called "National Youth Service." Don't buy it. It's a euphemism for the grim and ugly reality of THE DRAFT. If the Pentagon can't figure out how to make a success of its volunteer army, let them give up the war idea altogether. Let unswerving opposition to this so-called Youth Service mark the recrudescence of student activism. Let Harvard lead the way in the cry for NO DRAFT! NO CONSCRIPTION! NO SELECTIVE SERVICE...
Sykes' assassination, coming just a month after U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was kidnaped and murdered by Muslim extremists, underscored the grim reality that diplomats have become prime targets for terrorists. By and large, security measures to protect the ambassadors are often surprisingly lax. Straub's parents said their son had told them of repeated bomb threats against the ambassadorial residence. Yet the ambassador had no bodyguard, the limousine was not equipped with bulletproof windows, and his residence was unguarded. Sykes' apparent disregard for his own safety seemed all the more astonishing since he had recommended...
There is much to be said for the widely held thesis that the U.S. will be gripped by both stagnant growth and roaring inflation through the next decade. This could be the grim legacy of the profligate, overregulated 1970s. In the current indulgent decade, the U.S. has spent too much and saved too little. It has spent too much of its wealth on immediate gratification and too little on investment for the future, too much on Government uses and not enough on private uses, too much on easy imports of energy from afar and not enough on hard-slogging development...
...authoritative petroleum industry weekly, the Lundberg Letter, offered a grim forecast of just how hard−and how quickly−the U.S. is likely to be hurt by the tightening oil squeeze. Using regular-sales tax data supplied by state governments, the letter warned that by the end of next week there would be a shockingly large shortfall of 8.9% in gasoline supplies. A rush by panicky motorists to gas up would virtually guarantee long, temper-fraying lines reminiscent of the 1973-74 Arab oil-embargo days. Hoarding would simply make the gas shortage worse and further drive up fuel...
...chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...