Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell with the grim, pessimistic facts! Let's all go to work and learn how to smile like we're the luckiest people on earth...
Into the Dust Bowl. Oscar Robertson, of course, learned his basketball in Indiana. Born on a farm near Charlotte, Tenn., Oscar was three when his family moved to Indianapolis, where his father landed a job in the city sanitation department. The Robertsons settled precariously in a grim, four-room, tarpaper-roofed house in the black ghetto on the west side of town. Just two blocks away was an out door basketball court known as the "dust bowl." In the dust bowl Oscar Robertson discovered basketball...
...week when U.S. spacemanship and missilery had won bold successes-the orbiting of Samos, the spy-in-the-sky satellite (see SCIENCE); the clean triumph of the new solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM; the Project Mercury shot and recovery of an "astronaut" chimpanzee*-President Kennedy's grim announcements seemed curiously out of phase, as if he had stumbled upon a copy of the Soviet Doomsday Book...
...John Kennedy's White House knew that the fight would have to be refought on every major bill, that their forces might never be as strong again-and they no longer had the Rules Committee blockade as an excuse for failure. They buckled down to prepare for a grim era of whipcracking, blandishment and push-pull patronage to work their will in Congress...
...Tulsa World: "President Kennedy has outlined to Congress a program so wondrous in its hopes, so broad in its ambition, that it seems almost sinful to wonder if it may be too far out of this world." Said the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram: "Although his picture tends to be overly grim, Kennedy has made a thorough and quite scholarly diagnosis of the ills of the nation and the world. When it comes to remedies, he is less persuasive. The specifics of his program remain to be tested in the congressional fires." Grumbled the Chicago Tribune: "Less an exercise in statesmanship than...