Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died in War. Two hours later, Lacerda propped his bandaged foot on a hospital stretcher, called for paper and pencil and dashed off a grim, accusing editorial for next day's front page...
...year Sir Winston had been rumbling in public and private about his desire to see Malenkov in a last, dramatic attempt to bring peace to the troubled world. The atmosphere of Geneva got him all stirred up again. He broached the idea to his Cabinet, which heard him in grim silence. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Lord Salisbury, leader of the House of Lords and Churchill's longtime adviser on foreign policy, objected strongly and bitterly...
Socialists, who had suffered under Churchill's taunts of "Scuttle" when they advocated withdrawal from Suez in 1946, thoroughly enjoyed Churchill's discomfiture, greeted him with sardonic cries of "No scuttling." Below the gangway sat 40 grim-faced Tories, the "Suez rebels" sworn to vote against the government rather than accept withdrawal. The first question Opposition Leader Clement Attlee asked was barbed: "In view of the statements which were made by the present Prime Minister on the absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement...
Jack Smith is a handsomely bearded young (26) Yorkshire artist who firmly believes that life is grim and men are heroic just to live it. For his second one-man show, on exhibition last week at London's Beaux Arts Gallery, Artist Smith produced 15 examples of what he calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid...
...down. The next day, another sweeping cutback hit Seattle as well. New President Allen went home and muttered dazedly to his wife: "My lord, the roof has fallen in." In 60 days, $1.5 billion in contracts were canceled, more that 38,000 workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips...