Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange and mystifying ceremony, will take place in Moors Hall this week as hundreds of grim-lipped girls draw lots for their next year's rooms. A highly-coveted low number will give the holder a good chance for one of the choice rooms in her rent group...
Fazzini at his more serious was harder to take. The Prophet, which Fazzini himself considers one of his best statues, was a grim, slope-shouldered figure in coarse-grained pearwood, as ungainly as his other work was agile. Fazzini explains it as "architecture in the form of a man-the attempt of man to become more pure, and to rise from the material to the spiritual...
...hottest fighting in Korea nowadays is the battle of U.N. planes against Red antiaircraft guns. The U.S. Fifth Air Force had some grim announcements last week: in fighter-bombers (56 Thunder jets and Shooting Stars; 55 propeller-driven Mustangs) have been lost to enemy AA. fire in the past five months. January was the worst month of the air war, with 52 U.N. planes lost in combat, and 44 of them were downed by flak. Already heavy and deadly, Red flak is growing constantly more so. Said a U.S. airman gravely: "The free ride is over...
...reply, Soviet Delegate Alexei P. Pavlov snapped a grim warning to all Western newsmen. Oatis' post, said he, "was only an alibi for his true activities." Warned Pavlov: "If you start sending spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...
...last-minute tinkering and tuning had been done. The standard stock cars-among them British Allards and Sunbeam Talbots, French Simcas and Citroëns, Italian Lancias and Alfa Romeos-were as ready as they would ever be. At a series of watch-tick signals, 328 grim-faced drivers from 18 nations set out from such widely scattered starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich, Stockholm. Their goal, some 3,300 roundabout kilometers (2,000 miles) away: Monte Carlo -and a million francs (about $3,000) first prize...