Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through TV, resented having the committee shut them out. The committee's action backfired in one case, when an enterprising radio reporter smuggled a microphone into the room (hiding the wire under the rug), recorded some anti-Taft testimony, which was later broadcast.* Outside, TV cameras caught the grim faces of three guards posted at the closed door...
...steel strike entered its sixth week, the Office of Defense Mobilization made a grim announcement: the loss of steel production had "wiped out virtually all the gain so far from the expansion program that has been under way since Korea." The vast, complex U.S. economy was slowly being throttled down, yet scarcely anybody-except the strikers and the steel companies-seemed to care. The Administration was trying to wash its hands of the whole mess. Nevertheless, the hard facts of trouble were piling...
...commander-Major General Daniel Hudelson, outgoing commander of the 40th Division (California National Guard)-drew some grim conclusions from these facts last week. The Communists, said Hudelson, now have the power to drive the U.N. forces out of Korea. On the word of other top commanders, his estimate of the situation is too pessimistic, but Army Secretary Frank Pace's rebuttal -"[We can] meet any challenge the Communists may make"-was certainly far rosier than Clark's report warranted. Retorted Hudelson: "Secretary Pace . . . undoubtedly has information not available to a poor old broken-down commander just back from...
...four-day visit to the Southwest, Averell Harriman clung closely, as usual, to the Fair Deal party line. At Phoenix, he labeled the G.O.P. "the Grim Old Pessimists." At Albuquerque, he cried that "we could never have defeated the forces of fascism in World War II if our economic vitality had not been restored by the New Deal." On the Taft-Eisenhower promises to cut spending, he said: "You can't have low taxes and security." At Salt Lake City, he rode in a jolting buckboard escorted by 40 cowboys and Ute Indians, who later made him a chief...
Boros scrambled to a 71 in the final round, then sat back to see what Ben Hogan could do about it. Hogan, drained and grim-faced, could do no better than another 74, for third place, a stroke behind Porky Oliver. Boros, a pro for only 2½ years, was the new champion. His 281 whipped Oliver by four strokes...