Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. In these and other articles we told the Arab side of the tragic story. This week our cover focuses on embattled Israel. We present an interview with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, an account of the arms lineup stocked by both sides since the October war and the grim prospects for another conflict...
...dismal science of economics has no more grim indicator of what is happening in the nation than the number of men who are forced to find refuge, as best they can, in the squalor of Manhattan's Bowery. This week the city-operated Men's Shelter in the slum will give Thanksgiving dinners to some 2,000 people, an increase of more than 50% over 1973's figure. The number who are seeking out the shelter day to day is up 22% in a year's time and includes the largest group of young men seen...
...some of the best of Germany's modern art, asking if he couldn't pick up a dozen or so cut-rate paintings of beer- hall scenes for his Secret ServiceI agents. Nor was there the board-chairman bearing of Richard Nixon trailed by a phalanx of grim courtiers shooting Super-8 movies...
...dollar has been damaged by the drumbeat of increasingly grim economic news from the U.S. In addition, because short-term interest rates in the U.S. are coming down from their recent record peaks, money managers are switching funds out of dollars and into currencies offering better returns, notably the mark. While New York banks pay 8%% interest on short-term dollar deposits, German banks give up to 9% for marks...
...alternatives to such courses are grim. Israeli and Syrian troops are currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...