Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic civil defense policy should emphasize personal survival techniques and seek only limited objectives in shelter and evacuation during attack. It must include plans for post-attack care and dispersal and should prepare the public to face the grim aftermath of nuclear bombing...
...heartbreaking thing about Virginia is that, as the South's leader, it has chosen to lead the way backward into a dark yesterday. Its acts to date have been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...
...strength of this wave of criticism, the Socialist Opposition in Parliament demanded a debate on India's foreign policy. Opening the two-day debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
Promises. It was the fearful news of the deportations-the classic Siberian solution for troublesome minorities-that sparked the great workers' demonstration. In orderly ranks, but grim and determined, 10,000 men from Ujpest, Kispest and Csepel surrounded Parliament house. Here, protected by seven huge Soviet tanks, a dozen armored cars and Red army infantry, was the only piece of ground which could correctly be said to be controlled by the government. Workers' leaders went up to the Presidential Council chamber on the second floor to see Janus-faced Janos Kadar. They found a weary, bug-eyed...
History Fenced In. Such gaily innocent concerns appear in grim contrast to the Russian backdrop. There are pitiable and grotesque vignettes of life in the home of the revolution-a man brutally beaten beside a cathedral and left helpless and ignored in the snow, female bouncers in a beer cellar, rapacious black-marketeers...