Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life and law of free men. earning their own rewards in their own ways, lie the great strengths of the non-Communist world, the powerful promise that goes beyond the grim necessities of deterrent military power. In programs with the shopworn names of "foreign aid" and "reciprocal trade." for example, lie important chances for mobilizing the free world and fighting on U.S. terms the economic cold war declared by Nikita Khrushchev...
...took a long, authoritative look at the city around it, reported its findings in a seven-part analysis of the street-gang cancer and the damage that it produces. The series, written by Harrison E. Salisbury, for five years the Times's Moscow correspondent, dramatized by understatement the grim, everyday facts of warfare on the streets of the big city...
Despite the grim sights, the exhibit offered much hope. At each of the 26 booths, a victim of cancer who has undergone successful surgery was in attendance, living testimony to the efficacy of early detection and prompt treatment. Other townspeople allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered...
...poisonous Indian medicine down ailing father McPheeters' throat through an oil funnel: "He spit the first dose straight up ... like a geyser, but the medicine soon took the fight out of him." The trouble is that much of Author Taylor's carefully researched Western history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when, at journey's end, Jaimie is a boy no longer, having discovered what it is men see in women: they "look somehow larger undressed than dressed, both forward and rear...
...pietistic work-"My First Self-Criticism." He duly denounced himself, but he could never quite feel the same again about little Emmi. who had turned him in. From these case-history-hardened boys and girls, the Russians drew the personnel that took over in East Germany. Walter Ulbricht, a grim, humorless and inhuman man. even by Communist standards, was their leader, and Leonhard became one of his lieutenants. But in 1949 he fled to Yugoslavia, sided with Tito against Moscow, but remained a Marxist. The book is fascinating as a sort of Communist Candide-but it is far less amusing...