Word: grim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington. She discovers that statistics and categories tend to be slippery in this part of the world...
...startling reversal for Byrne, who had pledged her support to Washington the day after losing to him in the primary and as late as March 1 scoffed that a write-in campaign "couldn't be done." Though there were grim cracks that she had launched a "white-in" campaign, Byrne stoutly insisted that her decision "has nothing to do with race. I'm not running for blacks or whites or the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or any political organization. I'm running for Chicago." In fact, she seems to be running for her political life...
That parental push has its grim aspects. Observes Liu: "Mental disturbance and even suicide attempts are not uncommon side effects of the intense pressure Asian students feel in the U.S. Not studying hard brings deep guilt." And the single-minded dedication that Asian Americans invest in studying often puts them at odds with their peers...
...squat, mustard-colored building known as Bannon Street sits on a bend in the road, framed by railroad tracks, warehouses and an industrial park. Inside, the mood is as grim as the dull yellow walls. Rows of double bunk beds line the dormitories. "This reminds me of Dickens," grumbles Resident David Erickson, 33, an unemployed carpet layer. Indeed, Sacramento County in northern California has borrowed a page from the English novelist and revived a 19th century solution to economic hard times: the poorhouse...
...region. He had heard "the heart-rending lament rising from these lands," where over the past five years, civil strife has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, most of them bystanders in the struggle between left and right. Indeed, the region's conflicts have reaped a grim harvest of martyrs and threatened to rend the church in two in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. For those who were in pain, John Paul brought a message of hope, peace and unity...