Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TRULY TERRIBLE thing has happened, The American people have lost Faith. No one is exactly sure when Faith disappeared or even where they might have left it, but the grim fact speaks for itself: Faith is missing...
...vision holds, and how hard it is to harbor this hope without it breaking or your breaking into cycnicism. He is concerned with more than survival, with survival not being enough, which is refreshing after more indulgent writers. His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, is set in a grim prairie expanse in the west, a badland blowing as cold and vacant as the plains near ancient Thebes. An outlaw comes to the frontier town and idly levels it; the book is about weak humans who build it again though they know in their hearts it will probably be razed...
...million cutback in the capital budget. City workers have agreed to put off their promised 6% wage raise, and come next summer, those who work in air-conditioned offices will have to stop leaving the job an hour early. These were some of the "slashing economies" that a grim-looking Mayor Abraham Beame announced last week, adding, "There is nothing I have done in public life that has been more bitter...
...greeted by a cheerful though not tumultuous crowd of 250,000 in Warsaw ("American VIPS are no big deal here any more," noted a U.S. diplomat). The following day he visited Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where 4 million people were put to death during World War II. The grim-faced President placed a wreath of red and white flowers at a memorial honoring the dead of 19 nationalities...
...There'll be no more seat-racing for a while"--Parker flashed a grim little smile--"but we might just want to look at a question or two." Scattered, hisses and some laughter broke the tension in the air. Carie Graves, who was sitting on the ground, started wriggling her six foot one inch frame. "I think a spider just crawled up my pants," she explained. The laughter spread, and the attentive silence was over. Questions were being directed at Parker from all directions, questions about the future. What about breaking the time standard? What kind of a boat would...