Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed Harvard Polo Club, which numbers about a dozen enthusiasts, manages on a miniscule budget--a far cry from the Polo Clubs of the past. Gone are the days when young men would arrive at Harvard with strings of four or more polo ponies. The club now faces the grim spectre of poverty...
Moorish-Byzantine architecture is overlaid with stalactite-jagged pieces of stone that evoke a heavy grottolike or grim moonscape atmosphere and achieve a feeling of gloom and doom. Although there were some boos for the scenery on opening night, it did suggest a kind of nightmarish psychological symbolism, and to some critics it made the torment of the characters seem much more lifelike...
Everybody talks about the good old days in the U.S. at the turn of the century. One gentle but impassioned lady, Dr. Alice Hamilton, remembers it differently-as a grim time when men were immobilized by carbon monoxide gas in steel mills, women suffered brain damage from lead used in the pottery trade and thousands of workers were crippled and died from the inexorable accumulation of poisons in dozens of industries. Almost singlehanded, Dr. Alice drew state and federal attention to the horrors, aroused public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed...
...fight to meet the original budgetary needs of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Kennedy and other Democrats decided that the time had come to rebel against the Senate's Pavlovian habit of slashing non-defense appropriations while passing military spending bills unscathed. The grim testimony presented to the "hun- ger committee" proved the validity of that position...
...Irina was tried for possession of documents that quoted a political prisoner as saying that "present conditions in Soviet concentration camps are just as terrible as under Stalin." Among the few spectators allowed to attend her trial was a high-ranking officer of the organization that, among its other grim tasks, ran those camps for over 40 years. He was Colonel Mikhail Belogorodsky of the KGB, Irina's father...