Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exile of their own tribal ruler, the Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14, 1953). Mau Mau terrorism had spread through the jungles from Kenya right into Uganda's teeming chief city Kampala, where many a white resident found a dead dog or cat crucified on his doorway in grim warning of what might come. A threat from Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi to kill Britain's Queen if she came to visit gave the final jolt to the British governor's jangled nerves...
...last October, Khokhlov was summoned to the headquarters of MVD's grim Ninth Otdel, the "terror and diversion" section now under the direct supervision of taciturn Alexander Panyushkin, onetime (1947-52) Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. He was told to proceed to Frankfurt, there to assassinate one Georgi Okolovich, a big shot in the right-wing Russian expatriate organization, NTS, whose Berlin director, Dr. Alexander Trushnovich, was brutally abducted from West Berlin by Communists a fortnight ago (TIME, April 26). Khokhlov said that he went home to talk the matter over with his wife, and both decided that...
...dance number, "Steam Heat." By dint of talent and personality, Miss Haney overcomes the understandable audience disappointment at this deception and turns the routine into the evening's highpoint. She also sings the show's best novelty, "Hernando's Hideaway," a nonsensical little tango which she tears into with grim intensity. Since the lyrics are something like: "At the Golden Finger Bowl or anywhere you go, You'll meet your Uncle Max and everyone you know," you might guess that no one takes the songs, or the show, very seriously...
...Feeney a Grim Warning...
...have generally strengthened the club, adding such top ball players as Eddie Robinson, Enos Slaughter, and Harry Byrd. In addition, the Yankees have come up with their usual crop of fine rookies--two strong-armed young men named Bob Cerv and Bill Skowron, and a young pitcher named Bob Grim...