Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noisy applause of the dozens of marshals, generals, admirals and war veterans arrayed behind the speaker's stand, Khrushchev repeated his grim warning of changes to come for West Berlin, suggesting that these really were needed to safeguard world peace. "The Soviet people do not want war . . . For the sake of this, toward the end of this year, we, together with other peace-loving states, will sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic . . . We do not threaten West Berlin . . . we propose a free city status...
...thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used to lift the President, grim-faced and ignoring the photographers below, aboard his plane in Palm Beach, and a similar device lowered him to the ground in Washington. He canceled one scheduled speech, delivered a second -to the National Conference on International Economic and Social Development -seated in a chair. When callers came to the White House...
...gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that would be flung into the faces of lesser men. J. P. Marquand also knew, along with the late George Apley, the virtue of the correct tip, but he saw the grim portents of the future in Willis Wayde, an obnoxious and insecure climber who plied bellboys with folding money where the quick, light slap of metal would have been sufficient...
While a number of domestic comedies are on view, ranging from fair to sad the field at the moment is dominated by foreign films, most of them grim...
...MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The Secret Ways, Richard Widmark is the hero on the run, and the Communists are the heavies...