Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere, blocks away, the U.N.'s Indians, Swedes and Irish are fighting hard. But on the wide pavement outside the seedy Hotel Leopold II, no human stirs except Moise Tshombe's tough, sharpshooting paracommandos in their red berets, and the grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier...
Unbridled Power. But preceding the U.S., Nationalist China's Ambassador Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...
...extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white, and quite unfamiliar wall paintings are reproduced, for the first time...
...brow so grim...
Whatever became of this unpleasant Mr. Eliot, whose brow was ever so grim, and whose mouth was ever so prim, the present Mr. Eliot is a mellow, gracefully old and skeptical man, who was perfectly relaxed before his Boston College audience Monday night...