Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contingent of U.S. golfers entered in the British Amateur championship was one of the weakest in years, and U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Harold Ridgley was considered one of the weakest of the lot. Hardly anyone noticed the grim, taciturn noncom as he plodded around Lancashire's seaside Formby links. But when all his countrymen were gone, Ridgley was still in the running. When he finished the semifinal round last week, just about every spectator on the course was ready to concede him the title...
...gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...autobiography published in England last week, Lord Halifax recalls a grim May afternoon when he met with Churchill and Neville Chamberlain to decide who should replace the discredited Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Halifax, Chamberlain's choice, opened the discussion by declaring that as a peer, forbidden to enter the House of Commons, he could not hope to run the government effectively. Dryly he records that Chamberlain "reluctantly and Churchill, with evidently much less reluctance, finished by accepting my view...
Since boyhood, McClellan has carried with him the admonitions of an Arkansas preacher: "Know thyself, control thyself, deny thyself." For long, grim years John McClellan struggled to shape his life by that code-and success came late...
...Grim Statistics. Alfonso de Portago was not a man to let such grim statistics disturb him. He had not only playboy inclinations, but also the talents of a natural athlete. The more spectacular a sport, the more he liked it. For a while, he favored jai alai and polo. He had barely learned about the dangers of bobsledding when he was picked to represent Spain in the winter Olympics. "The mere fact that we race requires no courage on our part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what...