Word: grim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s, the total of outstanding mortgage loans tripled. Those who rented in that inflationary decade watched helplessly as the price of homes took off. People born late in the generation found that home prices were out of sight even before they entered the housing market. The tales were particularly grim in fashionable high-priced areas like Manhattan, where would-be yuppies desperate for affordable housing have even moved, VCRs and all, into rundown "single-room occupancy" hotels, sharing the bathroom down the hall with strangers...
...many years ther was a grim silence, as Adam West and Burt Ward went on to open shopping malls and Batman Comic fans grimly hid their books behind issues of Spiderman. There was no hope in Gotham...
...Atlanta is a wary town, haunted by an evil memory, touchy about anything reminiscent of that grim time. Just when lingering anxiety over the slaying of 28 black youths from 1979 to 1981 had begun to recede, a new series of murders with a different type of victim has recalled a period the city wants only to forget...
...launched its bombers out of a grim conviction that ruthless attacks on Americans and the citizens of many other countries will never let up until terrorists and the states that sponsor them are made to pay a price in kind. In his televised address following the raid, the President asserted that the air strike "will not only diminish Colonel Gaddafi's capacity to export terror, it will provide him with incentives and reasons to alter his criminal behavior." That argument won the support of only three U.S. allies: Britain, which gave permission for the F-111s to use English bases...
...raid put an end to the contest of wills between Gaddafi and Washington. On the day after the raid, TIME Correspondent Sam Allis noticed that someone had scrawled a message on the circular rear end of a Sidewinder missile stored on the deck of the carrier America. The grim inscription: THIS IS FOR MOMAR...