Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, he was the only newsman in Washington who had uncovered the real and urgent reason for the sudden Robertson-Radford trip, reported in NATIONAL AFFAIRS' Grim Deeds...
With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...
...subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status as one of "the lost generation"-those gallant young schoolboys whom fate and the nostalgic poetry of Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen transformed into tragic legend. Years later, in Berlin, Eden was to refight the grim Battle of the Somme on the back of a menu provided by an Austrian-born corporal named Hitler, who had served opposite Eden's outfit...
Valery's shocked parents accepted and crossed into West Berlin one day last week to confront their runaway son. Valery listened skeptically to his mother's pleas and to his father's warnings of the grim fate that would await him in U.S. "concentration camps." At the end of 45 minutes, the boy, nervous and angry, stalked out of the room. Valery's mother, close to tears, asked permission to talk to her son alone. Valery came back. He was calmer then, but no less intransigent. After ten minutes, Mme. Lysikov returned to her husband...
Armstrong Circle Theater offered a grim little farce called TV or Net TV. The plot line: when a group of suburban husbands feel abused because their wives and children neglect them to watch television, they cunningly arrange to botch the TV reception; but a few nights of listening to the incessant yammering of their TV-free families drive them to restore the status quo. Somewhere in this vicious circle the televiewer himself may well have felt tempted to risk the full fury of a family on the loose in preference to the typically bad TV farce represented...