Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...best, TV's own stars shone brightly enough. Wally Cox was authentic as an American bent on self-improvement; Burr Till-strom's Kukla and Ollie sounded just the right note in their comment on old Hollywood movies. Whenever the show edged up to something as grim as war, Ed Murrow and Oscar Hammerstein II were on hand to speak with suitable gravity and-for the most part-brevity...
That day thousands of Koreans, marshaled by brassy-voiced parade sergeants, were tramping the streets of Seoul. Many were grim-faced hooligans and toughs, trotted out frequently for "spontaneous demonstrations." Others were shuffling, disinterested older folk, householders mustered by their neighborhood ward heelers, or casual pedestrians ordered into the line of march. A long column of marchers fell in behind the high-school girls. At a big barricade in front of Eighth Army headquarters, the scratched and bleeding girls were pushed from behind, and clashed again with M.P.s and police. Water hoses dispersed...
After Boymans officials recovered from their surprise, they concluded that the second picture, painted right onto the wooden backing of the painting in front, was by the same artist (the shadowing, the angular folds of the robes, the grim expression of St. Peter's face were as legible as any signature). Experts guessed that the double picture was originally part of one altar panel...
...tells the story of the Essex with a plenitude of details and a sober chronicler's lack of shock. Few whaling men had as tragic a time as the men of the Essex, but whaling, as Author Stackpole describes it in The Sea-Himters, was characteristically a dangerous, grim and dirty business. Stack-pole's book is a serious attempt to set down the round story of how it all started, and how for a few generations it made Nantucket rich and famous...