Word: grim
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Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
Several teachers polled said they approved of the new program. "It sounds pretty grim, but perhaps it [Expos] went too far in the opposite direction," Robert Oden, a former teacher of the course, said...
...travel situation looks particularly grim for the Christmas holidays because of the strike at Trans World Airlines and public uncertainty about air travel. Airline officials, though, are promising air service at the same level as last year...
Friends say that the child took it well. "You could tell by the Senator's reaction when it was over-he was a mirror of how the boy reacted," said one Kennedy intimate. "He was grim but you could tell things had gone about as well as something like that...
...Sadat's press adviser, speaks with some authority. Egypt feels that the Arab world has purged itself of the shame and humiliation of June 1967. Yet the Egyptians have not become arrogant. There is still self-doubt, expressed in mercurial shifts of public mood that ranges from a grim belief that war must resume to soaring projections about the potentials of peace. Through it all, the Egyptians have retained their traditional tolerance, indolence and humor. Until the cease-fire checkpoints were turned over to UNEF, a favorite Cairo joke was that all the food going to the city...