Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town of Kellogg was not prepared for a long strike, and the results were grim. Bills went unpaid, new purchases trickled off, most of Kellogg's merchants began operating at a loss-and some closed down. Young businessmen, who formed a Common Sense Council, argued common sense to both sides. Now the council goes on the local radio station three times a week to castigate the union's unyielding stand. The dormant Shoshone County Anti-Communist Association awakened, charged that the union was Communist-led. The Mine & Mill workers were ousted from the old C.I.O...
...tall, thin man with closely cropped hair, Bentley had originally intended to be a concert pianist. The prospect of the professional musician's grim life changed his mind at the last minute, and he went from Oxford to Yale, where he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends...
During his public appearances, Nixon wonders whether to grin or to maintain the grim face of a great statesman, whether to strike out directly at young Jack or depend chiefly on the aura of Eisenhower. As he speaks, the G.O.P. candidate works hard to arouse indignation at "dangerously immature" candidates, and to show respect for Ike, the great symbol of national unity and purpose...
Plenty of Advice. The grim effects of this change of fortune became more apparent to Nixon as he moved into New York City for three days of conferences and huddles in his Waldorf-Astoria suite prior to his TV debate. Not only was Kennedy surging in the big-vote eastern states and winning adulation in the streets, but the Nixon camp itself was showing its first signs of gloom and discouragement. Gone was the confident prediction that Nixon would win or lose in one big sweep-the win to be based, hopefully, on his clear superiority in leadership...
...Southern Rhodesia containing some old letters and photos Mark had been carrying. Alarmed, the family pressed the State Department to open a search. A check with consulates in Kenya and Uganda, where the boy was overdue, produced no trace. Then a native arrived at the consulate in Elisabethville with grim news: a soldier of the mutinous Congolese army, presumably searching for Belgians, had shot an unknown white man near Kasongo; the body was found on a bar along the bank of the Lualaba River. At first there was hope, but last week Mark's family opened a terse telegram...