Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father to let her study dramatics, but papa was an unsuccessful playwright as well as a practical Swiss, and he laid down the law: business school. Maria took a typing course and a job wrapping books in a mail-order house. Salary: about $11.50 a month. It was grim, but it did not last long. At 16, she was a movie star...
...Revolution, it was still not approved. Gales of laughter went up at the story that the Pentagon would not tell how much peanut butter the Army consumed for fear such knowledge would give the Russians an indication of our manpower strength. But the "laughter has an echo that is grim...
Like half a dozen others that had recently arrived, this brain came from a child who had just died with cerebral palsy. It gave Dr. Perlstein, pediatrician at both Cook County and Michael Reese Hospitals, one more chance to learn additional details about the grim affliction which is not directly fatal but is severely handicapping, sometimes shortens life by lowering resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take...
GIVE US THIS DAY, by Sidney Stewart. A grim and unforgettable book about World War II by a young draftee who was captured on Bataan, liberated by the Russians in Manchuria after suffering more than three years of horror and maddening brutality...
Theodore Loos and a number of the Benevolent men are in jail this morning, and Mike Quill in hurried conference with grim lieutenants. It's like the old days, sort of novel and romantic--and a source of grudging pride...