Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picassophobes could take grim delight in Psychiatrist Henrich's findings. For them, the test proved that moderns are mad. Picassophiles would be forced to conclude that the average Viennese layman is no judge...
...third round, though Ferrier was leading, the biggest gallery stamped after grim little Ben Hogan, sympathetically cheered his every shot. If anybody could catch the Australian, it seemed to be Ben. Jimmy Demaret, gaudily attired in rose slacks, also kept in the running. For the second day in a row, he got an eagle three on the tough dogleg 13th, finished the round with a par 72. But as they went into the final day Ferrier was still two strokes ahead of Hogan, four up on Demaret. The big reason: his marvelous putting touch, which had kept him 18 under...
...this grim list, even the French would pick alternative No. 1, if they were forced to face the realistic choice. It would then be possible to settle down to the highly necessary discussion of how to control a rearmed Germany. But until that point was reached, all maneuvers for the curbing of Germany-and all plans for the defense of Western Europe-were just committee-room talk...
...Bologna, a Red stronghold, the party could produce no sea of faces or grim proletarian columns. In groups of five to eight, activists toured the city, calling on shops to close and workers to strike. Whenever the celere appeared, the activists, to avoid arrest, would suddenly produce a soccer ball and begin to play. In one day there were at least 500 games going. Major trouble was avoided, but shops remained shut, factories idle...
...demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square-number 49-which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture of a grim man in a clerical collar, and the single word: PROTESTANTE...