Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody fight against tyranny. They were the work of a virtual unknown: a gentle, pudgy free-lance photographer named John Sadovy. When LIFE released six of his pictures to the Associated Press, hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. snapped up the chance to run them. Sadovy's grim shots of fury, terror and the face of death were all the more remarkable for the cold cour age he needed to take them in the most dangerous kind of combat-a confused, vengeful rebellion in which the bullets zinged from all directions...
...Pale and grim, Sir Anthony Eden rose in the House of Commons at 4:35 one afternoon last week to announce the Anglo-French ultimatum to Israel and Egypt. When he had finished, the House was chill with silence, the Tories staring straight ahead with the rigidity of Guardsmen and the Laborites frozen to their seats in horror...
...voice was subdued, grim, with none of the usual flamboyant confidence. From his little office in ex-King Farouk's boathouse on the Nile, Gamal Abdel Nasser appealed to 22½ million Egyptians. His words carried also to an enormous Arab audience from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, from Casablanca to Basra...
Thus Sportswriter Lenny Anderson described the grim days when losing coaches quail before alumni complaints and. in their wishful dreams, head south for a job at Georgia Tech, the school that has yet to fire a coach. But if the Yellow Jackets have a happy habit of hanging on to their coaches, the coaches have a happy habit of fielding winning teams. Last week, just to keep the record straight, Coach Robert Lee Dodd's unbeaten engineers eased past Duke's Blue Devils...
...every artist is reflected in her work by her manly style and womanly sensitivity. The brotherhood of man, sorrow over death, the cruelty of war, care of the sick--these great humanitarian sentiments were the themes of her work. She wasn't mawkish: her work is grim and reminiscent of Goya's Disaster of War. The grimness is lifted only now and then by a look of suprise on the face of a young girl or by a mother laughing as she plays with her child. Otherwise we realize that to Kollwitz the joys in this life were its responsibilities...