Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tolstoy, the grim treadmill just continued; age brought no respite, maturity no fulfillment...
...false comfort they are enjoying. Instead, it seems as if Lucien has at last been lured by chance into making one right move in his life. It's as if he always could have been this way, a confident huntsman, a good husband and a good son. Considering its grim subject, Lacombe, Lucien is remarkably full of beauty and humanity. After all the jesuitical casuistry of who was right and who was wrong, it is not the social background we tend to remember--and Malle may be reproaching us for this forgetfulness in his opening and closing quotes--but images...
...Nixon has kept a grim watch at the hospital, leaving only for brief periods of rest. At the doctors' suggestion, she has not returned to San Clemente, 50 miles away. Julie and Tricia flew in to comfort their mother and help answer the calls from old family friends, including Betty Ford. Other people phoned the hospital offering to donate blood, but all such offers were politely declined, since the hospital had a plentiful supply of the type A-positive blood that Nixon needs...
...Sahel, the rains last June broke a six-year drought, but the area's 25 million inhabitants are not yet out of danger. Ten million people still suffer from malnutrition and will need outside aid for at least two years. "Of the estimated 4 million refugees in grim, barren camps," reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "many are young children, their bodies already so malnourished that they are easy prey to diseases ranging from measles to meningitis to pneumonia. Often they find it too difficult to eat or drink with out assistance." At least 3 million nomads-mostly Fulani...
...This grim prognosis has led to apocalyptic warnings from some of the world's top food experts. "We will see increasing troubles, not declining troubles," predicts Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "We will see increasing famine, pestilence, the extermination of large numbers of people. Malthus has already been proved correct." The most vulnerable to such disasters: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Sahel nations, Ethiopia, northeast Brazil, the high regions of the Andes and the poor parts of Mexico and Central America...