Word: grim
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Much depends on Gromyko's reaction to any new approaches suggested by Reagan. Longtime observers of the Soviet Foreign Minister have nicknamed him "Grim Grom" for his stony demeanor and negative responses to pleas for Soviet compromise. Says a U.S. diplomat: "He loves to put you on the defensive." At his last meeting with Gromyko, this past January in Stockholm, Shultz found his Soviet counterpart in such profoundly bearish spirits that he decided against bringing up an exploratory arms-talks proposal, which he had been authorized to present only after considerable infighting within the Administration. A display of Grim...
When Weinberger came to speak to some 1200 people at the Law School Forum last November 17, dozens of demonstrators, some dressed as Grim Reapers, some unfurling American flags upside-down from the Sanders Theatre balcony, some hurling blood-red water balloons at Weinberger, made his speech virtually inaudible...
...Viet Nam War, many Democrats have been ill at ease with flag waving and the military trappings of national pride. Moreover, while Mondale must appeal to public worries about the monstrous deficit and the Reagan Administration's foreign policy stumbling, he cannot afford to seem a grim, party-pooping pessimist...
With familiar chants of "Solidarnosc!"the crowd joined Walesa in defiantly flashing the V sign and singing the patriotic hymn God Who Watches Over Poland, as hundreds of grim-faced policemen looked on. But Walesa was seeking no showdown. After leaving his bouquet at the base of the monument to workers killed during antigovernment riots in 1970, he quietly thanked his supporters for coming and drove away...
This book, published in France four years ago, has a radically different setting the working-class world of a grim little town outside Lille, and the author has been lectured by French critics for attempting it. She borrowed the plot from a 1965 short story by Jean Hougron, who brought suit against her; Sagan won the case on appeal. The outline is familiar maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit...