Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title and $550,000 in prizes at the remote Philippine resort of Baguio City three months ago, the Soviet chess establishment took no unnecessary risks. To give advice, they provided Karpov with a cadre of talented seconds. To ensure his privacy, they dispatched a crew of grim-faced security men, led by a cigar-chomping ex-KGB prosecutor. As its ultimate weapon, Moscow also sent along Dr. Vladimir Zoukhar, a neuropsychologist who is reputedly an expert in hypnosis...
...Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front runner at the start of the conclave, was asked what he thought of John Paul II's inaugural message, delivered only half an hour earlier, he snapped peevishly...
...Jabbing his finger at the item, he said, "Government is flattening out. The private sector is pushing forward." Noting that corporate profits in California are double the national average, he said he expects the 1979 state surplus to be as large as this year's. So despite all the grim forebodings, no sharp cutbacks in public spending are anticipated...
...pearl-handled revolvers and outsize crosses favored by the swaggering militiamen - were providing counsel and logistical support. Christian officers of the Lebanese armed forces turned over to the militiamen an arsenal of U.S. weapons that had been destined for the country's moribund, ineffective army. Contemplating the grim fact that more than two dozen armed factions are now operating in Lebanon, Militia Leader Chamoun asked pointedly: "What is Lebanon - a sovereign state or a whorehouse...
...fiction and grants his landscape something it never had before - credibility. The place is Georgia; the time, the Depression, when "there wasn't enough cash money in the county to close up a dead man's eyes." His people are the forlorn, gaunt sharecroppers fixed in the grim photographs of Walker Evans. James Agee, whose Let Us Now Praise Famous Men accompanied Evans' work, portrayed his subjects with the sympathies of an outsider; Crews evokes them with a familial intimacy...