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Unhurt herself, Maria had just witnessed Portugal's grimmest air disaster. Shortly before she heard them roaring above her head, twelve U.S.-built Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force left the Ota air base to take part in an air force show to the north at Coimbra. None of them could see the fog-shrouded mountain on which Maria stood beneath them. As they hurtled forward in tight formation, the four top planes cleared the peaks without harm. The eight planes below them plowed head-on into the mountain, killing all eight pilots and reducing Portugal...
...uninitiated in art, the Museum is a somber place. One of them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
What with charts, tabulations, percentages, and frequent passages of intricate reasoning, the Student Council's review of General Education at Harvard in no easy report to wade through. Yet although its prose may be of the grimmest variety, its conclusions and recommendations make it one of the best Council reports in several years...
...detective," plus an unshakeable moral code. He kept a careful record of the names of doctors under whose "care," he thought, too many young women died; the resulting lists became a standing terror to British abortionists. To murderers, he became a more fearsome feature of the courtroom than the grimmest of judges. Foolish defense attorneys cross-examined him in the hope of breaking down his air of absolute rectitude and exactitude, but wiser ones let him have his say, and thanked God when he was done. Judges fell over themselves to praise him as "the perfect witness...
...days later, in the drab green patients' dayroom of the Naval Hospital, red-eyed mothers stood beside stiff-backed menfolk in their Sunday best for the grimmest inquest in local history. "You have seen Body No. 1?" the coroner asked one couple. "Yes." "Were his full names Raymond Peter Cross?" "Yes." "Was he aged eleven years?" "Yes." "Thank you. Will you sign here?" And so it went. Trained nurses led a stream of weeping witnesses in & out of the room. Alone and unnoticed at the back stood Driver Samson, twisting his cap round & round in his hands, speaking...