Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ching, federal mediator and peacemaker, had put the shipowners in one room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
...Communist Prague, two trash collectors sat in a cafe on St. Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
...situation was getting grim," said King. "Food was very low at base camp...
...TIME, March 4, 1946), which was a smiling-through-tears account of how she and husband Bob struggled to raise poultry. The Plague and I (now in its third printing) is all about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body, and a description of the life & death around her-"small dry coughs, loose phlegmy coughs, short staccato coughs, long whooping coughs"-it has all the frank appeal of a public hanging...
...This grim prospect had been brought closer by the galloping inflation, by the political bankruptcy of the Queuille government, and by the Communist-called coal strikes which were costing France $3,000,000 a day-almost exactly as much as she was getting from EGA. Overshadowing these factors was the growing realization of Frenchmen that the world conflict between Russia and the West could not be sidestepped. Frenchmen now applied this new view of the world struggle to their own national problems. The bright fiction of a "third force" between Communism and its opponents was dying hard...