Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When menstruation at last forces her retirement, Laksmi may face a grim future. Her predecessor, who has just rejoined her family, is so shy and bewildered in the mortal world that she is unable to answer questions, and has difficulty climbing stairs, since as a goddess she was always carried up and down. Most of the ex-goddesses turn into unhappy old maids. Their handicap in husband-hunting: the rigidly held belief that the man who ends the virginity of a former Kumari will die after six months...
...with excitement "about his September tour of Red China. In the Sunday Times, he reported that he could find "no evidence'' that the Chinese people were becoming tired or disillusioned. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Monty reported: "Talk of large-scale famine, of grim want, of apathy, of a restless nation, is nonsense, maybe even dangerous...
From the East come Premier Khrushchev, Mao Tse Tung, the East European and Asian comrades; and Hoxha of Albania, alone. Their collective faces are grim; their collective gait resolute; their demeanor stern...
...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...fast, aggressive Williams soccer team staved off a last-period Harvard threat and became the first team to beat the Crimson this year. The score was 3 to 2, and for Harvard fans it was a grim afternoon...