Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your grim story of life under Socialism Communism in East Germany [Aug. 25] should be reprinted weekly and distributed to every American to read. Nonsubscribers have missed a strong reminder of what the free world faces...
...Trenches. "Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper. Czernowitz, now Russian but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was a town that thrived on folklore and legend, and even the grim periodic pogroms added to the sense of drama. At 17, Reder was drafted into the Austrian army, spent World War I in the trenches as one of the most wretched and incompetent of privates...
...other work progresses, 50 other missiles will be in place by year's end. By 1963, several Minuteman silos will be completed daily; an impressive arsenal of about 200 missiles will be primed and ready. Safely underground and protected against counterfire, they will serve as a grim reminder that the U.S. is well able to strike back against aggression of whatever magnitude. In the long run, that ability may be the deterrent that will keep the silo doors closed...
...scream of sirens and the clank ot steel on cobblestones echoed down the mean, dark streets. Frightened East Berliners peeked from behind their curtains to see military convoys stretching for blocks. First came the motorcycle outriders, then jeeps, trucks and buses crammed with grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks - squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin...
...best of the lot is the much anthologized Kneel to the Rising Sun, a grim and eloquent expression of disgust that ends with another dead Negro. One of the things the author says, without raising his voice, is that men will wince at the torture of a dog and then join a shotgun mob. It is not a story that can be read calmly, but it is written calmly and well...