Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations, deadpan grim despite the ludicrousness of his charges, Russia's Jacob A. Malik accused the U.S. of raining down on the enemy a horrible array of germ-laden objects: pork, crackers, spiders, crows, ants, yellow leaves, crickets, flies, fleas and death-dealing goose feathers. Malik's colleagues on the U.N. Disarmament Commission could take it no longer. "My right ear," complained Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who sits at Malik's left, "has become seriously infected by the perpetual dissemination of verbal bacilli." The commission, eleven against Malik, ruled the Russian out of order...
Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
Novelist O'Hara has seized on a solid theme, but has not written a novel fully worthy of it. The Son of Adam Wyngate is a meandering, overstuffed family saga, all too full of the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail. Clumsily written and badly in need of saving irony, The Son of Adam Wyngate reads more like an unedited transcript of family disaster than a dramatic portrait...
Sprawled along the Charles, the two grim looking buildings belie the lazy life that typifles Winthrop. But the House is not dead. For those who want them, there are activities ranging from pool to playwrighting. If you don't find a club you like you can start your...
Kefauver could not have made his debut to better advantage. His role was that of an upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled...