Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workmen set about tossing out furniture to convert it to a community center, beshawled women clutching their rosary beads gathered and shouted imprecations. Soon husbands and sons came up, and a crowd of 5,000 was marching on the police headquarters. When somebody began to throw stones at the grim-faced Communist cops, the police opened up with tear gas and rubber truncheons, injuring 70 rioters and arresting...
Earlier this year, Tibetan guerrillas became so successful in attacking Chinese truck convoys hauling materials for a string of Red Chinese airbases that in grim desperation the Chinese decided to throw in a regiment of Tibetan troops under Chinese officers. Although the men had been hand-picked and carefully indoctrinated, they promptly murdered their officers and joined the rebels...
...door of the 707 jet opened again at Washington's Andrews A.F.B.; there, as Ike came down the ramp, 2,000 people cheered and applauded, and a military band blared welcoming marches. His grim expression melted at the sounds, and Mamie Eisenhower grasped her husband's shoulders, and tears came to her eyes as she kissed him. Ike turned to meet the dozens of officials who made up the informal receiving line. Democratic and Republican leaders alike shook his hand; 24 officials from foreign embassies, who had come to the airfield on their own, added their greetings...
...negotiate, then we will wait for the one after that." His audience-the bigwigs of East German Communism-had come ready to cheer the announcement of his long-threatened, long-promised treaty with East Germany. Khrushchev told them: wait six or eight months. When this was greeted by grim silence, Khrushchev hastily interposed: "We do not let this subject out of our sight, but let's wait a bit. It will ripen better...
...grim group of Washington strategists tossed out the possibility that a crisis growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...