Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first three, there was little to look forward to; for big things in union labor, they were through. But tough, ruthless Jimmy Hoffa was getting ready to take the big step to ultimate power among the Teamsters. His mouth hardened into a grim line; his accustomed arrogance softened to a lighter hauteur; he stiffened his muscle-packed (5 ft. 5½ in., 170 lb.) frame and snapped: "I have been as clean as anybody else in the labor movement. What I have done was in keeping with the membership's authority vested...
...Grim, gruff John McClellan rapped the table with his gavel. Before him in the Senate caucus room sat Teamster Vice President James Riddle Hoffa, his stony face pale, his big fists flexing. It was a weary moment, the climax of 17 hours of question and evasion before McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee, during which Hoffa wriggled relentlessly over craggy points of absurdity. McClellan began to talk: "For reasons that are apparent to everyone who has followed these hearings, we have reached a point where it seems to be useless and a waste of the committee's time...
...intensity by Europe's fast-rising Maria Schell) is serving as head nurse in a German field hospital. By a ruse, a band of partisans whose own doctor is severely wounded succeeds in kidnaping her. After the partisans' doctor dies in her care, they offer her a grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears Helga in two, not because she fears execution, but because she must measure her narrow patriotism against her involvement in all mankind, her diminution by any man's death. "I always believed," a partisan chief (Bernhard Wicki) tells her, "that...
...last week, was "damned unhappy about the vote last night." The vote: the Senate's 51-to-42 acceptance of an amendment that snarled up the civil rights bill by specifying jury trials in criminal contempt cases. Acute unhappiness overtoned the crisp and unprecedented statement that a grim-jawed Dwight Eisenhower dictated to his press secretary. "My first reaction ... is to extend my sincere appreciation to ... those Senators who stood ... in valiant and persistent efforts to bring to all our citizens protection in their right to vote-a protection of which many are now deprived. Rarely in our entire...
Depicting a man who has lost track of himself, the movie occasionally catches up with Taylor. The ramifications of cowardice cannot be treated quite so lightly. On his side are his devoted wife (Dorothy Malone) and his loyal Korean buddy (Jack Lord). Taylor shuffles about Madrid in grim seizures of fear, but they are never convincingly documented. In the end, when he has proved to himself that he can take a cloud or leave it, he wakes up to find himself whole again. The adventure is grand; the mission is accomplished with some frightening sideslips. But the movie fails...