Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were even those who believed that peace would exert its own form of pressure on the Proves. "The consequences of the truce breaking down are too grim to imagine," one of the eight Protestant clergymen who helped to arrange the cease-fire said earlier last week. "If this fails, it will be a fight to the finish." With a vengeance that seemed to prove him right, the peace was shattered shortly after the I.R.A. announcement, by a bomb explosion at an army post in northern Belfast...
...half" Indian. On the dresser in his room there is a collection of photographs of his relatives, half of them Indian, half of them white. On one wall, he has tacked up posters of nature scenes and Elton John; on the opposite wall there is a drawing of a grim-faced Indian, with the inscription, "All we ask is to be allowed to live in peace--Dull Knife, Northern Cheyenne...
...surprise that for the nation's life insurance companies, measurement of blood pressure is the most important factor used in predicting life expectancy. Actuarial charts are based on figures that offer grim testimony to the effects of hypertension: at any given age, the higher the blood pressure, the shorter the life expectancy (see chart page...
...annoyingly anonymous fellow asserts, we are left to our imaginations, and they become just as valuable as the so-called real world we see around us. They are perhaps even more valuable in Abe's urban environment because it, too, is a product of our imaginations, and a particularly grim one at that. But, while it is important to understand these basic concepts, they do not become apparent immediately. They are hidden within an intrigue involving the box man's tentative release from his lonely enclosure, a release finally procured by a woman's love, which ultimately becomes yet another...
...Viet Nam War as a grim fairy tale, ruefully seen from a Montagnard village trapped between alien protectors...