Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good fortunes of the black middle class. "It's nice to see that society can function despite all the things that have gone wrong," he says. Contributing Editor Ivan Webster was assigned an accompanying story about the black underclass - an experience far less heartening. "It's a grim but necessary part of the larger story," he notes. "It amounts to a cry of alarm - I only hope the cry is heard...
...March 1973 London car bombings that injured 238 persons and led to the fatal heart attack of another. In an effort to gain attention for their Irish Republican cause and force British authorities to return them to Ulster for the rest of their prison term, the sisters pursued a grim path toward self-imposed death: for seven months they systematically starved themselves...
Spenser's grim comment was written 400 years ago, but the Irish drama seems to be eternal. The latest chapter in this unhappy story ended last week when the Executive, Northern Ireland's fragile coalition government of Protestants and Catholics, folded under the pressure of a devastating two-week general strike that had been called to preserve Protestant hegemony in Ulster. With the province near collapse, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was forced to reimpose direct rule from London, and British Tommies once again were on the alert to prevent Irishmen from killing Irishmen...
...encourage people to move into the downtown area, Philadelphia has been rejuvenating a neighborhood directly south of Independence Hall that is known as Society Hill. Instead of sending in the bulldozers to flatten the decaying district, Philadelphia has cleared out only the grim factories and warehouses, while rebuilding the small, elegant 18th century town houses and creating what Inquirer Editor Eugene Roberts Jr. calls "a suburb right in the middle of the city." In the past three years 23 restaurants and bistros have opened in the neighborhood, catering to the 8,000 people-mostly young couples-that have moved back...
...administration's reasons for attempting to block the unionizing effort clearly lie deeper than in an academic interest in maintaining University-wide organization. Any indications that the huge, sedentary bloc of largely-female clerical and technical workers is asserting its rights and will join a union poses grim possibilities for Harvard indeed: the costs to the University of negotiated wage increases or of a strike, for example. Certainly, Harvard would want to keep these workers disenfranchised...