Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free But Grim. Although layoffs rippled outward to wash some 35,000 workmen out of their jobs in supporting mining and transportation industries, Washington deemed the strike no immediate menace to the economy's health; Administration economists predicted that upsurge would start right in again as soon as the strike was over. Piled up in warehouses were record steel inventories calculated to last two months or so (see BUSINESS). President Eisenhower said that he planned no drastic move to try to end the strike. "I believe." said he, "that we have got to thoroughly test...
Instead, the President ordered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's Director Joseph F. Finnegan to help work out a voluntary settlement. After separate sessions with the steelworkers and with the Big Steel negotiators, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, Finnegan was grim, saw no hope for an "easy or early solution...
...With grim determination last week, Gaitskell again asserted his leadership. To promise unequivocally to renounce the bomb as Cousins demanded, said Gaitskell, would be "escapist, myopic and positively dangerous to the peace of the world." He refused to give such a pledge, and denied the right even of a Labor Party Conference to bind "those of us who have the responsibility of leadership" in a future Labor government. To ban the bomb unilaterally "would be handing the Soviet Union the power to overrun Europe, without any fear of retaliation...
There is little joy in the film because there is little joy in the book. Sister Luke rarely smiles. Where is the laughter of convent gardens, which has been called "the purest in the world"? After many years in which Sister Luke makes a grim effort to be a perfect nun and instead becomes a perfect nurse, she leaves her convent. The conflict as to "why" is not stressed so strongly in the film as in the book; the audience is left to ponder the "why." Her confessor in a darkened confessional scene tells Sister Luke that...
...major cities met with Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien to cope with a new crisis. Henceforth, the Vice Premier declared, city dwellers would start growing their own food on the "large tracts of land on the outskirts" of town. To outsiders, the announcement meant two things, one as grim as the other: 1) the start of the long postponed campaign to force the cities into the kind of anthill communes that now blight the countryside, and 2) tacit confirmation of the many reports that the people in Red China's cities are going hungry...