Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gottschalk made the Crimson situation even more grim by upsetting Dan Kobick in the backstroke, and Greg Huff's win in the 500 free was the last for Harvard. Michael, coaching his last season and delighted to avenge last year's upset loss to the Crimson, put his top men in the final relay and won that, too, making the score even more lopsided...
...daughter will dominate the screen far more successfully than the father did in the '30s, '40s, '50s or '60s. Her bony body and lean, clean features can attack grin or grim pictures with equal ease. She has performed in period, contemporary and science fiction with total facility. Her speech still smacks of elocution lessons, but her throat thrums with conviction...
...country, or to personal discouragement. The effects on three typical families: THE MACHINIST. In Seattle, where widespread unemployment creates a here-today, gone-tomorrow mood, the current definition of an optimist is a Boeing worker who brings his lunch to the job. One man who can appreciate that grim joke is Vern Higgins, 44, a precision machinist at Boeing until last month, when he was laid off after eight years on the job. Higgins grossed $168 a week; now he collects exactly $168 once a month in state unemployment compensations. From that, Higgins pays $108 on the small suburban house...
...grim individual vignettes are multiplied among entire tribes. In northern Arizona, twelve small villages of the deeply religious Hopis fight their uncertain struggle to avoid extinction. Reversing years of decline, the Hopis now number 6,000. Isolated for centuries, even their own villages still have no political links with one another. They live on three massive sandstone mesas in the Painted Desert, where pasture land is scarce and only their skillful dry-farming of corn provides a meager diet...
Investors were despondent over the slide. The fear of a major business slump pervaded Wall Street like a chill fog. The mood conjured up the grim humor of The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Market, a 19th century painting by William Holbrook Beard that hangs in the gallery of the New-York Historical Society. In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam. The topic was the recession and how long it would be before the Administration realized how serious it could become. President Nixon's press-conference avowal last week...