Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood of failings in the grim green mountains. Last year's suicide total (57) was amongst the highest per capita in the U.S. And 1957's uncompleted total may well exceed...
President Eisenhower has failed to disguise the grim reality of Russian scientific advancements. Intending to maintain public complacency rather than risk alarm, he dispensed a warm shower of emotional confidence. His specious argument and vague exhortations should only draw attention to the weakness of his remedies...
...Competition is hell." This largest single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...
Last week President René Coty went back to the man he had tried first-durable, hardheaded Socialist Guy Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform...
Most dealers today admit with chagrin that they at first misjudged their man. Their impression was that Niarchos was buying to cover his walls, or as investments. Today such feelings have given way to respect in the light of Niarchos' hard bargaining, retentive memory and grim determination that has had his agents stalking important paintings for years. "If I had to name two characteristics of Niarchos," says one international art dealer, "they would be that he prefers 'strong pictures,' and that he had good taste, or good advice, right from the beginning...