Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...
...grim fact remains that the Soviet Union is increasing its armed might . . . During 1951 we did not make adequate progress in building up civil defense against atomic attack ... In the field of defense production we have run into difficulties ... In the Middle East, political tensions and the oil controversy in Iran are keeping the region in a turmoil. In the Far East, the dark threat of Communist imperialism still hangs over many nations...
Graves Registration's job is grim, difficult and dangerous. Sometimes the teams have followed the fighting so closely that they have had to fight themselves; their men have been killed and wounded, some by guerrilla bullets, some by mines...
...since the R.A.F. bombed the gates in 1944 to free a batch of Resistance fighters had anyone escaped from France's grim, grey Amiens prison. It was just the quiet, safe place to send hulkingly handsome Léon Meurant, to await the summons to the guillotine...
...Five Grim Conclusions. The fact that Iranians accept Mossadegh's suicidal policy is a measure of the hatred of the West -and especially the hatred of Britain-in the Near and Middle East. The Iranian crisis was still bubbling when Egypt exploded with the announcement that it was abrogating its 1936 treaty with Britain. The Egyptian government demanded that British troops get off the soil of Egypt. Since the British were guarding the Suez Canal, they refused. The Egyptians rioted, perhaps in the belief that the U.S., which had opposed any use of force in Iran, would take...