Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours, grim reports began rolling in. Israel charged Jordan with machine-gunning to death a 50-year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...
While the outcome of the tour seems grim to say the least, the squad has a chance to again win the New England title, which it last captured...
...this week began, the battle raged on, bloodily and in doubt. It was a grim prelude to the Asian peace conference. The Communists were squandering life at Dienbienphu to win points at the conference table in Geneva...
...consistent in that attempt, and if he meant to give him any outstanding quality, it is lost in a maze of contradiction. Only with Cassy Kane does he achieve any greatness as a character. In a love affair marred by the shadow of a past abortion, and the grim truth of a present one, there is still the remoteness, the almost dreamy atmosphere so reminiscent of the best of Fitzgerald...
...rose on a miserable little newcomer to the animal kingdom. Baby Bandoola's trunk was a stunted snout that he could barely move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...