Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with exaggeration and outrageousness, purposely stretching our ideas of reality and probability. It creates a mood within which we can laugh easily at a man whose commendable but legally dubious hobby is building bombs to explode pompous bores. Instead of being told, "This is reality," (which might be mildly grim, we are in effect told, "This is a caricature of reality...
...comparison may be unfair but is inevitable none the less. Captive soldiers with grim, tormented faces and exhausted bodies suffer abominably in the grip of barbed wire. Death incarnate descends its dark, all-powerful might into the midst of struggling children and takes war's most horrifying toll. Humanitarian aspirations and instincts as epitomized by Kollwitz in the spirit of motherhood suffer and die under the relentless blow of man's inhumanity...
Purely Christian. Founder of this remarkable church was a Congregational pastor from Boston, the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, whose love of "gay, wicked, learned, royal Paris" was mixed with grim Yankee misgivings: "One may live in Paris and feel that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees...
...week. Admitting that its own vaccine is in critically short supply, the Public Health Ministry ordered "forthwith" enough Salk vaccine to supplement British vaccine supplies for inoculation of all children under 15 and expectant mothers. The policy reversal came too late to do anything about this year's grim polio season in Britain: 3,732 cases reported through August v. 2,077 for the same period last year. In sharp contrast to this picture are the U.S.'s hopeful polio figures: 3,887 cases through August v. 8,905 last year...
...Syracuse, crag-faced Carmen Basilio, 30, the graduate onion farmer who is now welterweight champion, saw no point in waiting for the crowd. He had no time for small talk, either. Over the door of the dingy Main Street Gym where he plugs away at his own grim routine of training, a cardboard sign warns the curious that visitors are unwelcome. The only fight that Carmen is worrying about is the fight with Robinson; the only strategy he is planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer...