Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves no longer welcome in Lebanon. Having been battered by the Lebanese Christians and even their Syrian sponsors in the Lebanese civil war, they now find themselves being pummeled by the Israelis, while Syria's 30,000 troops in the country just lean on their weapons. They face a grim period simply remaining intact in Lebanon. If terror helps them to keep their cause alive, then terror is thought to be justified...
...week. Deeply shocked by the massacre in the midst of renewed efforts toward a Middle East peace settlement, the world waited anxiously for Israel's reaction, which in the past has been to retaliate for terrorism on its soil with severe blows against the Palestinians. Begin finished a grim TV and radio report to the Israeli nation by vowing: "We shall not forget...
...family fighting called The Cycle of Violence. Extrapolating from her studies of domestic quarreling in Delaware's New Castle County, she estimates that each year at least 250,000 American husbands are severely thrashed by their wives. University of New Hampshire Sociologist Murray Straus projects an equally grim picture of this battle of the sexes. On the basis of his 1976 national survey of violence in 2,143 representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year on their mates. These range from...
According to Gunther, the new literature about human sexuality--largely generated, if indirectly, by the women's movement--paints an unfairly grim picture of men as savage, self-centered sexual beings...
Anatoli Shcharansky, the Soviet computer expert and Jewish activist who has become the leading target of Moscow's campaign against dissidents, is nearing a grim anniversary: as of next week, he will have been held incommunicado for a full year in Moscow's Lefortovo prison while awaiting trial on espionage charges. Last week the regime gave him a present of sorts, a state-appointed lawyer named Silva Dubrovskaya, who was described by the chairman of the Moscow bar association as a "lovely woman and a very experienced trial lawyer." One of her first acts was to express surprise...