Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hogan's real test came on the third day. Not since his accident had he played a full 36 holes in one day. With a grim smile, Ben went to work. The morning round left him two strokes back of Lloyd Mangrum's leading pace. In the afternoon, going into the final four holes, he needed par golf to win by two strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three...
...threat of aggression casts its shadow upon every quarter of the globe," he soberly reported to Congress last week. "The Soviet Union has dedicated itself to the destruction of democracy and everything which it represents, and is waging a grim struggle to make the entire free world slave . . . Moreover, her success in producing an atomic explosion has given [Soviet actions] new and frightening overtones that free nations cannot ignore...
Dust-laden shafts of sun cut through the barred windows of Bordeaux's Hotel de Ville last week and shone on grim rows of Communist faces. The comrades were out to consecrate a new party heroine martyr and saint. Raymonde Dien, a young (21), tough and unlovely Communist functionary of Tours, was up for trial on a charge of obstructing a military train bearing arms for Indo-China. The party press hailed her as the "little angel" and the "delicate heroine of peace." Some of the comrades spoke of her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and doubtless...
...Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained-the 1950 version of Adolf Hitler's Storm Troopers. The marchers chanted versified slogans. Sample...
Ranging from $300 to $6,000 in price, the paintings had an even greater range in quality. Among the best were solid, highly polished oils by such veteran academicians as Eugene Speicher and Gerald Brockhurst. Among the worst were heavy-handed official portraits of grim bigwigs, cover-girl pictures of their daughters and wives and innumerable sugary pastels of cute kids. As might have been expected, the works of such artists as Peter Kurd and Andrew Wyeth, who paint portraits only on occasion, seemed fresher and more imaginative than those by the full-time portraitists...