Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlook in Viet Nam, reported Mansfield bluntly, is "grim and discouraging." Diem is a virtual prisoner in his residence, the victim of "an incredible campaign of subversion by intrigue." His "constructive program . . . remains largely a paper program. It is kept that way by a kind of conspiracy of noncooperation and sabotage by those who oppose him." The army "is on the way to being converted into the private army of its commander" for political use, said Mansfield. "The petty-power groups in South Viet Nam appear completely oblivious to the overhanging shadow of the Viet Minh, which before long...
...most hated man in Africa stepped down from his pedestal last week. At 80, South Africa's Daniel Malan, the grim old Christian preacher who built the word apartheid (apartness) into the symbol of unchristian racial intolerance, summoned his Nationalist Cabinet and announced that he was quitting as Prime Minister. Malan made his decision not because he was sick or senile, but because his wife, Maria, had a serious heart ailment. The couple will retire to the university town of Stellenbosch, where Malan won his degree during the Boer...
...Louis, the Sporting News polled sportswriters, umpires and players to determine the major leagues' Rookies of the Year. The winners: the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting outfielder, Wally Moon (TIME, Aug. 23), and the New York Yankees' 20-game-winning pitcher, Bob Grim...
Three Hours to Kill (Harry Joe Brown, Columbia) might be called a saddle-soap opera. The heroine (Donna Reed) is a girl in "trouble," a sort of Stella Dallas of the Purple Sage, and pretty grim about it too. To make matters worse, she doesn't even get the hero (Dana Andrews...
...most West Germans, the struggle back to prosperity has been a dramatic success, though for all of them it was grim. Along the way, many despaired and died without lament. Two good new books on Germany, one fact, the other fiction, lament those Germans who went to the wall. The books share a common theme: courage and tragedy...