Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within minutes the far shore of the bay clogged with curious crowds; traffic eventually backed up all the way to downtown Boston. So many boats swarmed across the water that the rescue operation threatened to become a greater disaster than the crash. As dark fell, a grim collection of bodies, many still strapped in their seats, began to collect on shore. A TV and radio call for skindivers brought hundreds to the scene. Only a few dozen were qualified, but none hesitated to thrash through the black, blinding water while boat propellers churned around them. In the confusion survivors were...
...biggest stirrings were not yet in the hills but in the streets and on the farms. Among the middle class that financed Castro's revolt, a grim saying has spread: "We brought him to power, and we'll bring him down." One old rebel who can still speak out, Santiago's Archbishop Pérez Serantes, spoke for all in a new pastoral letter read in Oriente province. "How many Communists did for the revolution as much as our own did?" he asked his people. "Must we suffer tamely and silently having these now come and give...
...Castro. Castro made the first of several hundred misstatements of fact when he declared royally that "we" will "endeavor to be brief." As he speechified on and on, more than half his audience, notably including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time he did so, the Communist and Cuban claques in the Assembly, including reporters strategically scattered through the press gallery, set up a wild cheering calculated to convince radio listeners in Havana that Fidel...
...will be years before tribalism is wiped out. In the midst of the independence gaiety last week, Lagos got grim word that rioting by spear-carrying Tiv tribesmen of the north had led to more than a dozen deaths and scores of injuries. Even in the capital, the regional spirit is far from dead, and much of Zik's loyalty to his eastern Ibos inevitably will remain, just as will Awolowo's to the west, and Abubakar's to the north. But this also has the advantage of discouraging the development of monolithic one-man authoritarianism...
...meet each of her objections. During one of their recurring fights, he has to resist the impulse to strike her, and then the truth reaches him too. Throwing the word "coward" at him, Marie, pregnant again, sets out to visit an abortionist and finally a lawyer. Strangers is a grim little book but an uncompromisingly honest one. Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient piling up of telling detail and harsh, spare dialogue that conveys its own message: love, intelligence and good will are not enough when caught in the blind struggle between alien cultures...