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Word: grimmer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn? Of your local theaters' grim neorealism and grimmer (at least in performance) Shakespeare? Then Pinafore is the thing for you. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are offering a relaxing amateur evening at Agassiz, and I had a rollicking good time...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: H.M.S. Pinafore | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...development of intravenous embalming in mid-19th century (probably by Thomas H. Holmes, who made $400,000 embalming Civil War dead), the dead man laid out in the parlor was a corpse, and there was no doubt about it. But embalming made it possible to mitigate many of the grimmer aspects of death. The resulting display of the deceased has become the focus of a range of gimmickry and hard-selling that has raised the average bill from $350 in 1935 to about $1,400 (including plot) today, and brought on a storm of criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Business of Dying | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...where does this leave Richard Burton? Well, for his work in the same picture, he made $250,000. And if that seems grim enough, there is something even grimmer. In a burst of generosity some years ago, Liz gave her husband a 50% cut of her proceeds from the picture. So Eddie Fisher, who is still her husband, will make perhaps 14 times as much from Cleopatra as Richard Burton. He'll be rolling in money, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Millionairess | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Frontier, the faces of foreign-policy officials were grimmer, paler and wearier than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis last October. White House and State Department spokesmen talked somberly of a sudden shift from thaw to freeze in the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Great Deflation | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

These recommendations, if not wholly ridiculous, are certainly the most optimistic views of nuclear war that one can reasonably hold. The actual situation will be far grimmer, and the federal government knows it. There is little sense in the University's shelter program if the people who use the shelters will die soon after they come out of them...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Civil Defense | 3/7/1963 | See Source »

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