Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that a new era in history had begun, opening a bright new chapter in mankind's conquest of the natural environment and a grim new chapter in the cold...
Before Hoffa would accept the crown, he insisted that the Teamsters run through a charade designed to show that the Teamsters believe in fair play. Even the burliest of the delegates knew that the convention stood in the grim glare of public opinion, thanks to disclosures of Teamster corruption by John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee. With supreme cynicism, Jimmy and his boys pretended to clean their fingernails...
...time the breaks went against that myth, Casey Stengel. In a White Sox game this year, Casey left in a .100 hitter, pitcher Bob Grim, to hit with a tie score and two out in the ninth because he had no pinchhitters left. Grim hit the first home run of his career, swinging blindly...
...needed students and money, they are sure, will come. Marlboro is reaching the end of the greatest crisis in the life of any college--the grim test of survival during the years of youth and weakness. It has earned its right to growth and has broken through the barrier of obscurity. As President Zens says with determination, "We're in business and people know it now."Marlboro's library, with a small but adequate collection of books, is used both for studying and relaxation. The brown paper covering the shelves in the background is used to protect the books during...
...produced the greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick...