Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuseli alternated pornographic drawings (for private circulation among his friends) with surrealistic nightmares of horses invading ladies' bed-curtains and grim, grand-scale illustrations of Greek and Norse myths. To suggest the painter's impact on his time, Grigson quotes two of Fuseli's contemporaries. "His look is lightning, his word is thunder, his jest death and his vengeance hell," wrote one. "His neighborhood is unbearable." The other, a fellow artist, called him "a monster in design; his women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs...
...grim possibility of Russia openly backing the North Koreans arose when U.N. naval forces, operating near the 38th parallel...
...Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's baby...
...still larger battlefield-the world -Ho's victory had a grim meaning. The bulk of France's army was already in Indo-China; more troops would have to be sent there to deal with the new threat. France was a vital link in European rearmament and France could not make its essential contribution to the defense of Europe as long as its army was tied up in Indo-China. A quick victory over Communism in Indo-China was necessary if Europe was to be made defensible...
They were grim days, but for Commissioner Allen full of exhilarating experiences. He recalls some of them. Harry Hopkins made him the District of Columbia's Relief Administrator. George played golf with Harry, who was a hopeless duffer, and spotted Hopkins two strokes a hole "for an additional million dollars for District relief projects." George Allen got his million, kindness of U.S. taxpayers...