Word: grimming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after getting too many quiet no-comments from too many grim mouths, I did what any self-respecting professional gawker would do when he starts to feel like a bull at a funeral: I got in the press line and waited to be taken away...
...raining red arrows as the Dow lost 427 points in just two days--3.5% for the week--while the NASDAQ fell 6.5%. At a noon meeting in chief of staff Andy Card's office, top Bush aides decided to clear the President's afternoon schedule and dispatched him, grim faced, to the South Lawn of the White House to reassure Americans--and the markets--that he was "deeply concerned." They summoned House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate minority leader Trent Lott for the occasion--a deliberate display, says a top aide, "to show that the Republicans remain united." Lott...
...Elsewhere, the investigation into last Tuesday's attacks proceeded on several fronts, as authorities arrested two more people with ties to the suspected terrorists and a Pakistani delegation gave Afghanistan's Taliban three days to hand over fugitive terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. This after a grim weekend of dimmed hopes in New York City as rescue workers at the World Trade Center site marked their fifth day without finding a survivor in the wreckage. Pentagon sources put the death toll there at 188, including the 64 passengers aboard American flight 77. Authorities there say rebuilding the Pentagon could take...
...York, rescue workers continued their search for survivors in the rubble of what was once the World Trade Center. Amidst fading hopes of finding people alive in the wreckage, the rescue effort has faded into the grim task of recovering bodies and body parts. It has been five days since a survivor has been found. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urged everyone to prepare for the worst; by Monday 190 bodies had been recovered from World Trade Center ruins, 115 of whom had been identified. The number of missing stands...
...people the whole world wanted to thank - thecops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home among them...