Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is any actual experience of the working of Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have some inner friction or contradiction which soon brings them to a halt...
...technicians arrived at Hermannsburg's 200-year-old former inn, the lectures began. "Too many Christians," said Pastor Hans Juergen Baden of nearby Wienhausen, "think about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach...
...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...
...This role of the less spectacular and apparently unapplied groups within a faculty of arts and sciences deserves emphasis because in the grim years ahead, when the cold war will be with us, I fear, with an increasing intensity, it is this part of a university which will need special protection, and especially merits our concern...
...Greenwich Village's Washington Square, the handsome Georgian houses built by Real Estate Magnate William C. Rhinelander in the 1830s were coming down to make way for a new apartment house. Over near the East River, acres of slums had fallen before the grim, brick-cliffed ranks of Stuyvesant Town and its corollary projects. Along Central Park, new apartment houses were rising, and ornate brownstones were falling...