Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the eastern shore of Hong Kong last week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...
Further on in the communique we find that the football situation in Hanover in extremely grim. Coach Bob Blackman, who reported at the beginning of this season that he had practically no one worthy of wearing shoulder pads, apparently will face a similar dilemma next Fall. Every coach should have such problems...
...their displeasure later). They also seemed walling to let a few more correspondents into Moscow's tight little press colony. We saw an opportunity to expand our Moscow bureau and to break in a successor on the spot for Moscow Bureau Chief Ed Stevens, who has covered the grim Moscow story on and off since 1935 and wants reassignment outside Russia...
...divorced her husband, a director, a month ago. But Choi's wife, a Korean actress, brought charges of adultery. Still fired by the puritan zeal that Korea's new rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly corrupt Babylon of moviemaking, we've always thought, was so far away from...
...ticks off the guestly ability of each Minot forebear, and then gets down to the problem of the current Minot, a moneyless widow who, in an age when the great houses are closing, mortally fears that she will be reduced to taking a position as secretary to a grim old birdfancier...