Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eldest son, hears a kind of call to freedom in the court's ruling. But he gets it garbled, comes to think of it as a call to arms and, in the book's least effective chapters, answers it by ostentatiously dating an unsavory white girl. This grim and joyless effort to "push things" pulls the family into trouble, and the father into a not altogether plausible tragedy...
...Army best care for troops wounded in a nuclear attack? In the ivy-covered Army Institute of Research at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center, the grim subject came up for review last week at a conference on the "Management of Mass Casualties." Present: Army medical officers, representatives of federal and private health agencies. The conference consensus: nuclear warfare calls for a new definition of the old concept of battlefield treatment...
...Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn, "you can vote as you please-but Sam Rayburn is voting for Kennedy." Under the unit rule, Texas stood 56 for Kennedy...
collapsing into chaos, but he left harrowing problems behind for his successor. "The honeymoon of the revolution is over," says Siles. "I will have to face the realities." Among the grim realities: ¶ Inflation has galloped to the point that 7,000 bolivianos bring only $1 on the free market...
...every year more private houses are converted into small nursing homes for oldsters and invalids. There are now about 7,700 such homes in the U.S., caring for nearly 150,000 people. But many of the "beautiful country estates'' are firetraps, inadequately adapted for hospital use. Grim evidence of that fact was furnished last week in Puxico, Mo. There, in a 50-year-old wood-frame house. Mrs. Bertha Reagan, 53, a practical nurse, ran a convalescent home that technically conformed to state laws even though there was neither full-time nurse nor night attendant nor fire alarm...