Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least since dramatic Marshal de Lattre had come to Indo-China (in 1950) to fire his forces to a fervor that might have won the war had he not died (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952) and had economy-minded, casualty-sick France not let its effort degenerate into the grim mess that greeted Navarre...
...chief villain in the grim playscript was the Vatican. Hour after hour, from a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand, Bishop Kaczmarek, 58, recited indictments of the Catholic hierarchy. "It must be known," he said, "that the Vatican has always been leading an anti-Polish policy." It was hoping to "hand back our territories to Germany" in return for Germany's help in a war against Communism...
Wheelhouse. Oldest part of the grim little hamlet was a "broch tower": a crude donjon keep. Beside it was a walled courtyard. For shelter against the rough climate, they had a "roundhouse" that was roofed along its circular outer walls, leaving an open space for a fire in the middle...
...head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
...seen since July 1950," said General Dean. "I'm sure you look a lot better to me than 1 do to you." Then he told his story: how he and a small group of officers and G.I.s fought their way out of burning Taejon in that first grim month of the war; how he became separated from his party when he went to the help of a wounded man; how he lost touch with his aide; how he fell down a cliff while looking for water. For 35 days he wandered, dazed and hungry, begging food at farmhouses. Finally...