Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes grim, Field Marshal Sir John Harding flew into London last week with the air of a soldier preparing to straighten out some muddled civilian thinking. For days, London had been bustling hopefully over the sudden offer of EOKA's chieftain Colonel George Grivas to "suspend" operations if Britain would free and negotiate with the exiled Archbishop Makarios. Macmillan's Cabinet had met in special session; there was talk of bringing the archbishop to some neutral city, perhaps Paris. The government announced it would make a statement on Cyprus and asked the Greek chargeé d'affaires...
...Again. As Harding watched grim-faced from the gallery a few yards from the equally grim-faced Greek Chargée d'Affaires Demetrios Nickolairezis, Lennox-Boyd made the announcement to an angry House of Commons. "Another opportunity muffed," cried one Laborite. Insisted Lennox-Boyd: "Clearly the government of Cyprus cannot allow-under the cover of an offer of suspension-the chance of regrouping and rearming of the hard-hit terrorist group." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell declared that the EOKA offer created "a new situation" and demanded: "Is it not the case that only the imprisonment of the archbishop...
Baldwin's Piano Quartet (1957) was a single, balanced movement in C-sharp. Solidly constructed, it had many varied sonorities and not a few Bartokian turns. I was a bit disturbed by the unrelievedly grim and anguished cerebration that the music betrays. I also question the wisdom of starting a quartet with such a lengthy duet for violin and 'cello (which almost guarantees that the flute, being cold, will enter out of tune) and of inserting such a long piano solo in the middle: both the players and the audience will feel cheated. I must single out Lawrence Lesser...
Chill winds whipped across Kansas last week, smearing drought-mulched dust across the sky in dismal yellows. But things were not quite so grim as they looked. In Emporia, Farmer Robert George, 50-year-old bachelor, was teased by his kin for getting married, they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land...
...Villanova Miler Ron Delany reeled off an effortless 4:03.8 at the Chicago Daily News Relays, whipped Maryland's Burr Grim by 25 yds., came within two-tenths of a second of the American indoor record...