Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When one Cabinet Minister flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth to Durban to Johannesburg, Black Sashers were on hand. 50 strong, at each airport to give him a grim, silent greeting...
...Adenauer was grim and weary. "I think it was the longest trip I ever made," he told a confidant, and he did not sound much like the Chancellor who had left six days before with an air of confident self-sufficiency and diplomatic strength. To reporters he talked almost like a man with something to apologize for. "Take into consideration that the Soviet Union covers one-sixth of the earth's surface . . ." he said. "The conference was overshadowed by the memories of the last war.* It was not like other conferences. Passions, not rule of logic, played the predominant...
...Hashimoto, 65, the colonel who, on his own initiative, ordered the 1937 shelling of three British gunboats in the Yangtze River and sank the U.S. gunboat Panay. Near war's end, Hashimoto exhorted his countrymen to make suicidal attacks. Incarceration did not ease the colonel's bitterness. Grim-faced as ever, he rasped: "I am angry from the bottom of my heart at the injustice and irrationality of the war-crimes trials. I feel strongly my responsibility for our defeat. I apologize deeply to the Japanese people...
...Yanks were riding high. Catcher Berra was connecting for homers again. In one game, he hit two-the second one in the last of the ninth-to beat Boston all by himself and put the Yankees back on top of the league. Pitchers Byrne, Grim and Ford were back in pennant-winning form. Heading out this week for the season's windup with the Senators and the Red Sox, the Yanks had a solid two-game edge...
...should bury memories of the past, he said, because vengeance is not a good adviser; there must be good relations between Russians and Germans. A cold correctness replaced the honest heat of emotion. When the delegates strode out of the palace that day, Adenauer's face was grim. So far the conference, said a German, had produced only "an open exchange of blows...