Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the U.S. the effect was instantaneous and anguished. Wailed the New Rochelle (N.Y.) Standard Star: CITY MAILMEN WON'T RING EVEN ONCE. Some 1,000 of New York City's 35,000 postal workers were threatened with being laid off this week, and there were grim predictions of an unholy traffic tangle, as 6,000,000 pieces of Saturday mail piled up in New York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform...
...Russian-born wife, 53 (TIME, Feb. 4). They found out that while they were spying, the FBI had been on their trail. And when they faced the prospect that the Justice Department's case against them might well be unbeatable, they had to face up to the grim fact that in 1954 Congress raised the maximum penalty for peace time espionage from 20 years' imprisonment to death...
...Yale Undergraduate Drama Festival held in New Haven at the beginning of spring vacation was slightly misnamed. Except for a couple of isolated moments, the gathering of some three hundred representatives from nineteen Eastern colleges lacked anything resembling a festive air. Instead, an atmosphere of rather grim determination surrounded the occasion. "If we don't stay on schedule," one handout solemnly announced, "our universe will be reduced once again to chaos and darkness." College drama, it was clear, is not a lighthearted endeavor...
...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
...Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel...