Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his audience stopped laughing, Churchill got grim again. Said he: "I hope to live to see the British democracy spit all this rubbish from their lips...
Wave after wave, the icy realities of cold war-which had not really chilled Americans since the grim days of the Berlin airlift-broke over the nation again last week...
...Loudun watched, Léon Besnard's body was disinterred, turned over to a laboratory in Marseille. Within a few days Loudun heard the shocking news. Léon had died of a massive dose of arsenic. In the Palais de Justice in Poitiers, a grim little juge d'instruction asked Marie Besnard how the poison got into her husband. She had no idea; but at least one neighbor seemed to remember that Marie had once suggested arsenic as an easy substitute for divorce...
...husband of twelve years. It was just a year since the Swedish-born star, 34, had met the balding, 43-year-old Italian director in Hollywood and first talked of going to Italy to make Stromboli with him. It was just nine months since Dr. Lindstrom had spent two grim days in Sicily with Ingrid and Rossellini, trying to talk her out of her world-publicized romance and her demands for a divorce...
...world may be a grim place, but British Novelist Joyce Gary is not the man to learn it from. Most of his favorite characters are as much in need of reformation and social uplift, if not outright restraint behind bars, as the characters of William Hogarth. Nonetheless, give or take the cautionary ends they usually come to, they enjoy themselves tremendously. Gary's distinction is that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers...