Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a few minutes, a grim detachment of Marines rounded up the pirates and put them ashore. Next day the episode hit the headlines, and there was at least one facetious reference to Pearl Harbor. It was all so embarrassing that the Royal Australian Navy felt obliged to announce that, of course, the United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry...
WASHINGTON, May 16--A grim-faced Dave Beck took the Fifth Amendment again and again today at a swiftly moving Senate inquiry marked by these other developments: 1. A Teamsters Union bookkeeper testified he had no idea that Beck was using union funds until Beck paid back...
...where he presided with his fellow cardinals (Feltin of Paris. Gerlier of Lyon, Grente of Le Mans. Roques of Rennes), the scene might have been one from the church's potent medieval past. But St. Louis IX of France (1215-70) would have been saddened by the three grim problems before the French hierarchy : 1) the growing shortage of priests, 2) the defiance of the Worker Priests, 3) the crisis of religious education...
...wind lifts your cape," he explains, "you've got the bull in your lap." Then he has breakfast: nothing heavier than consomme and an orange, so that the surgeon, if need be, can operate tidily. Then he pulls on his suit of lights (traje de luces), says a grim goodbye to the wife and kids, puts flowers on his mother's grave, pops into the back of his limousine and starts down the last, long mile that leads to the moment of truth...
...critical days of the Hungarian revolution last November, the hospitals of Budapest were the scenes of many grim dramas. When the hated AVH police came out of hiding and joined the Soviet tanks in their savage crackdown, they shelled wards filled with children and wounded. Hospital courtyards were packed with the bodies of dead Freedom Fighters. Last week, for some unfathomable reason, the Kadar government in its first show trial decided to base its case against the Freedom Fighters on an incident that occurred at Domonkos Street hospital during these tense, terror-packed hours...