Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago things were looking pretty grim for Walter Hesford, a graduate student in American literature who'd just finished up a 516-page thesis on Thoreau. Hesford had started looking for a teaching job almost two years before, but so far almost 100 letters to schools as far away as Nigeria had managed to turn up only a thick stack of rejections. The months dragged on, and Hesford conscientiously saved his rejection letters, took to drinking paper cupfuls of Mogen David wine during undergraduate tutorials and waited for Commencement. Then came a break--an offer from Birzelt College...
...town in 40 years. Gifford joins in with state cop Tommy O'Rourke and traces the woman to her unhappy past in Boston and to the men to whom she was more devoted than they to her. The two cops' dogged pursuit--through what can only be termed a grim and desparate picture of urban civilization, and countless discotheques besides--nets them a grimy handful of none-too-virtuous witnesses who would just as well cast all blame on the suspect, Jimmy Johnson. A man who, it seems, has already been chewed off and spit out by this world, Johnson...
...income housing projects. But none of these measures seemed a solution for more than a fairly brief interim. And after September, another $711 million comes due in October. When asked what the situation looked like, MAC Chairman William Ellinghaus, former president of the New York Telephone Co. said with grim understatement, "It looks mighty tough...
...then there are the utterly impoverished nations-countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Chad and Haiti. These constitute what is now being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
...Fierce maiden, true life, whom we wooed with grim fight...