Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army holds no illusions that it can clean up the guerrillas in a hurry. In the long, painful process of stamping out the marauders, the grim and bloody prospect is for more thousands killed, more crops and cattle destroyed, for endless months to come...
...with armed force? If East Germany revolted, Von Brentano said, he was afraid that the West German public would want to go to the aid of their compatriots-and thus perhaps bring on retaliation from the Russian army poised on West Germany's borders. Von Brentano's grim recommendation: the peoples of Eastern Europe must be discouraged from "taking dramatic action which might have disastrous consequences for themselves." In other words, sadly but realistically, Von Brentano considered that the Hungarians were too brave for their own good. NATO's new Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak glumly called...
...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...
...from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.: close the bank, freeze all accounts, pay off all deposits up to the $10,000 maximum. Last week Ellenville counted the cost of its generous banker in empty stores, canceled orders and overdue bills. Business was down about 50%, and Christmas prospects looked grim, as FDIC prepared to liquidate the bank...
...Soviet Sport." During twelve gasping hours filled with 25 separate events-mostly such austere undertakings as Greco-Roman wrestling and long-horse vaulting-Russian Olympians won twelve gold medals and the U.S. none. With that, the race between the 16th Olympics' two chief contenders was over. By their grim gleaning of points in the final days, the Russian team gave the U.S. its first beating since 1936 in the overall mathematics of the Olympic Games...