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Word: grimness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London officials dubbed the affair "a conference of conspirators," and the Paris press was openly gloomy about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Open Race | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Night Circus (by Michael V. Gazzo) finds the author of A Hatful of Rain once again garishly grim. His scene, shifting between a crummy, dimly lit bar and a sleazy apartment, fits the play's characters with their inner loneliness, outer violence, anarchic dreams. Into the bar, on her wedding eve, comes a beautiful girl (Janice Rule) in prenuptial revolt against a stodgy suburban future; next day she returns, in her wedding dress, to go off with a hard-boiled sailor (well played by Ben Gazzara). The rest of the play concerns the unborn child of the fiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...West Berliners, heartened by such outside support, defied grim Red hints of trouble when Moscow's six-month period for accepting the neutral city proposal expires...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Western Leaders Fight Proposal To Make Berlin 'Neutral' City; McElroy Hints Larger Spending | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

Like a travesy on the preposterous state of American patriotism, this short subject on The Face of Lincoln precedes a grim and experienced movie made by Europeans about the second World...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Last Bridge | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...RICHMOND NEWS LEADER: IN this debacle there were many losers, not the candidates alone, but the G.O.P. as a whole, Vice President Nixon as an individual and (let us face the grim truth) the South as a region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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