Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million), nine-year-old republic of Israel heard the fateful warning of the President of the U.S.: comply or face the pressure that every headline named as sanctions. "Don't surrender," cried voices in the crowd as white-haired old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking grim and tight-lipped after a hectic day of Cabinet huddles, made his way into Israel's Parliament...
...collapse of the bridge-because the train had traveled on a Sunday. But most people simply blamed the designer, Sir Thomas Bouch (already knighted for his achievement), who in his plans had made no allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined...
...Grim Reaper." To a correspondent's suggestion that Vice President Nixon's assignments from the White House (as typified by his African trip next month to witness the christening of the Gold Coast colony as the British Commonwealth member of Ghana) were still largely ceremonial, the President replied: "Even if ... Mr. Nixon and I were not good friends, I would still have him in every important conference of government, so that if the grim reaper would find it time to ... remove me from this scene, he is ready to step in without any interruption...
...film starred Norma Shearer). It is still the romantic period piece it was, and though it seems a little tired for having been around so long, there is no apparent reason why it should not still attract large audiences. As the father, Sir John Gielgud is unrelentingly grim; as Browning, Bill Travers (in a wild change of pace from his muscle-bound Wee Geordie) is insistently romantic. The star this time is Jennifer Jones, who is pretty, not so healthy-looking as Norma Shearer, but not so convincing as Katharine Cornell...
...name's on the police list. In the name of Hungary, let us hide here!" By this time, everybody could see it was Sam Lawrence, editor in a publishing firm. He kept sneaking a look at the script he had in his hand, but he was grim about his part...