Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Reminder. Brains of the labyrinthine complex is a two-story control center, where the ten-man crew will work and live. The green-walled, fluorescent-lighted upper floor is crammed with consoles, television monitors and countdown timers. For each Titan there is a switch marked with multiple target designations. If the occasion ever comes, the crew will receive a coded target message from SAC headquarters at Omaha, flip switches accordingly. The missile will be fueled automatically, the surface doors opened, the Titan raised a foot a second to ground level and fired within minutes...
...soul-baring, grim message of our young, brilliant President has given life again to the famed declaration of a World War I French Marshal: "They shall not pass...
Water & Wheat Wafers. Defense Department plans are based on the grim realization that it is not merely hopelessly expensive, but tragically impossible, to protect 180 million Americans against the blast and flame of nuclear explosions; in a full-scale nuclear attack, as many as 50 million might die. What can be done, however, is to shield survivors from the deadly radioactive fallout that can drift down wind as far as 200 miles from a bomb blast. To protect against that danger, the $207.6 million requested last week will be spent mainly on a fallout shelter program...
Burning Shoes. Ulbricht unwittingly was underscoring what every East German knows-and every refugee's escape mutely testifies to: that life is grim in East Germany and getting grimmer all the time. In its headlong efforts to emphasize heavy industry (East Germany is now the sixth largest industrial nation in the world), the regime has given short shrift to consumer goods. Buyers have to wait at least a year for delivery of refrigerators, up to two years for washing machines. Even the outrageously priced Wartburg car (selling in East Germany for $3,750, in West Germany...
...Banmethuot last week, one band melted into the shadows as two members of the National Assembly approached in their Jeep. Then, at a signal from their leader, they raised their ancient rifles, clubs and swords and pounced with bloodcurdling cries. Seconds later, the two assemblymen lay dead, and the grim struggle to keep the Communists from winning South Viet Nam had claimed two more victims...