Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy coldly replied: "I hope you keep...
...Wall, it is thick enough to cut on the East. On Marx-Engels Platz. crowds wander through the "Christmas Market.'' a bright-painted hodgepodge of game booths, carrousels, sausage counters and Ferris wheels. The displays are trimmed with Tannenbaum branches and Christmas decorations, but the people remain grim and unconvivial. At the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, knots of East Berliners gather to stare wistfully westward through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate. Murmured a bespectacled worker: "The Americans should have torn down the Wall. Now it is too late...
...implied indictment of Castro, he put most clearly at a state dinner in Bogota. Warning against "those who tell us that the only road to economic progress is by violent Communist revolution," Kennedy pointed to Western Europe, free and prosperous, and then to the contrast of Eastern Europe, grim, grey and captive. "They promise free elections and free speech and freedom of religion. But once power is achieved, elections are eliminated, speech is stifled, and the worship of God is prohibited...
...bare facts are grim enough...
...students, it is our job to think," proceeded Meyer, criticizing the apathy of the American people. He painted a grim picture of the present situation: nuclear warheads being installed on Nike missles, atomic submarines and bombers in constant readiness, shelters being built and armed with machine guns...