Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Stranahan, 30, of Toledo, golf's itinerant millionaire, spends most of his waking hours thinking or playing golf with grim-faced concentration. Harvie Ward, 26, of Tarboro, N.C. spends a good part of his time at his stockbroker's job, plays golf with a more happy-go-lucky air. A onetime intercollegiate golf champion (1949 for the University of North Carolina), boyish Harvie Ward plays in big tournaments now & then, but he was still without a major victory when he teed off with Stranahan in Scotland last week...
...grim joke to be making in a land where death waits in every jungle thicket, but to the officers and men of France's famed Foreign Legion, death must be joked about. For more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died...
India's Prime Minister Nehru convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet...
...Pine's decision to the higher courts. Next morning in Judge Pine's court, when the injunction papers were signed, Assistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge asked for a stay of the injunc tion. "I deny it," said Pine. "Now you are free to seek relief elsewhere." Baldridge, grim and frustrated, stomped out of the courtroom. But that afternoon he showed up again in the grey-walled Circuit Court of Appeals (right next door to Pine's chamber), flanked this time by Acting Attorney General Philip B. Perlman. All the court's nine judges had as sembled...
Ever since All Fools' Day, 1949, when it was taken away from prison authority and given to the Ministry of Health, the big, grim hospital has been known officially as the Broadmoor Institution. Many a Berkshire villager roundabout ardently wishes it would go back to its honest old name: Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Broadmoor's tenants, the villagers feel, are far too dangerous to be treated as mere hospital patients. Take, for example, young John Thomas Straffen...