Word: grimmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Federal and local investigators may be about to shed some new light on that grim day. The FBI and Birmingham police announced last week they had reopened their investigation into the bombing after obtaining unspecified "new information." A single former Ku Klux Klansman, Robert Chambliss, was convicted in the case in 1977, but there has long been evidence suggesting he had at least three accomplices. Investigators received their new leads about a year ago, and have been pursuing them for months, but they decided to make the investigation public when they began conducting interviews of witnesses...
...grim lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a medical one: radiation kills on a sliding scale. High doses kill quickly and horribly, burning off skin and destroying intestines and other internal organs. Low doses kill more slowly, triggering leukemia and other cancers. From this knowledge, scientists deduced the rough formula that underlies virtually all nuclear safeguards written since 1945: even the smallest exposure to nuclear radiation is harmful, and as the exposure increases, so do cancers and deaths...
...convincing were the early stereotypes that three years ago, Coca-Cola, targeting teens and Gen Xers, test-marketed a new drink called OK soda. The gray cans featured grim designs, including one of a doleful youth slumped outside two idle factories. Slogans on the cans read, "Don't be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything" and "What's the point of OK soda? Well, what's the point of anything?" The nine-city campaign fizzled. And the company that a quarter-century ago had celebrated the baby boom with the jingle, "I'd like...
...Cannes Film Festival press screening, Depp experienced a noble tradition of the 50-year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn $50,000 for his family. The pinch-me part for Depp was climbing the Palais steps with girlfriend KATE MOSS to show the film officially. "To be accepted by those people...
...nearing nightfall, and the cemetery caretaker's wife was worried: her husband had not come home from work. She called the police, who headed out to Finn's Point National Cemetery, on a spit of New Jersey 30 miles south of Philadelphia. They arrived to find a grim tableau. The caretaker, William Reese, was there--with a bullet through his head. His red Chevrolet truck was missing. In its place, eerily, was a dark-green Lexus...