Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweetie," we whimper, "most of the Boston stuff seems eventually to come to the U.T." In reply the ladies then go into a grim, tooth-grinding pout, and usually get their...
...Electric Boat, three shifts worked around the clock, and the grim hulls bulged steadily into shape. All the while, their complicated, crowded quarters were worked over and improved. Because crews had to last out months at sea, there would be none of the stench of diesel fuel and battery acid that fouled the air of early submersibles. Into George Washington and Patrick Henry went 300-ton capacity air-conditioning equipment, air scrubbers and precipitants to remove irritants, and oxygen generators to enable the subs to manufacture their own habitable environment. Bunks were designed for comfort, no-lint skivvies procured...
Toward the Sun. Eventually, the Earp men met their various grim ends. Aunt Allie herself lived on until 1947, a spry pioneer widow who entertained her friends with stories tall and small. "Nature's good to folks," she used to say. "They never remember the rain and the storm when the sun comes out. That's why at my funeral I don't want nothin' but heaps of sunflowers. They're so full of life, always turnin' their faces toward...
...Prodigal. Playwright Jack Richardson boldly appropriates the grim material of Greek tragedy, skillfully turns Orestes into a mocking modern...
...educated person to these communities. The happy expression at Cambridge shows his patent joy at being enfolded by the charm of the Yard. His expression at Princeton is akin to amazed horror at finding such conditions extant in the middle of the 20th century; at New Haven, one of grim determination to go through with a calculated risk...