Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries and in Russia, where his pictures were plastered on exhibition walls and where he would soon oust both Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Twain as the best-known American. Bit by bit, a more complete story of his ill-fated U-2 jet flight to Sverdlovsk emerged from the grim, grey silence of international espionage...
...Grim Gamesmanship. U.S. intelligence officers believe that the Russians have long known of U-2 surveillance flights. But the U2, flying at least as high as 80,000 ft., was beyond the reach of their antiaircraft weapons. To have accused the U.S. of overflights would have been to admit an inability to defend the country against U.S. planes. Whether Khrushchev indeed got himself an accurate new antiaircraft rocket, or whether-as first U.S. stories had it-Pilot Powers came dangerously low with trouble in his oxygen system, the U.S., at week's end, did not know. In any event...
...grim gamesmanship of the cold war, Khrushchev scored the U-2 missions as omens of aggression. But as long as U.S. forces need to seek out the sources of possible attack, such flights will continue. Until improved reconnaissance satellites swing into orbit, bold pilots will continue their crossing of a hostile continent. The oxygen mask wall continue to put a new face on the secret agent of tradition, marking his release from the hole-and-corner, back-alley deals of history...
...layer of laughter, on a grim foundation, was an uninhibited, spontaneous measure of the extent to which Alateens learn to live with their special set of problems. They share advice on such crises as what to tell a date who shows up when Dad has been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find...
Countess Potolska sits in the sun-dazed plazas of Mexico, but her eyes blindly stare at aristocratic Polish drawing rooms, the image of Pilsudski, and her 20-year-old son standing in the streets of Warsaw in grim defiance of Nazi soldiery. Hawk-eyed and hawk-beaked, the countess is a Polish Jewess and a refugee, one of the world's involuntary tourists whose heaviest luggage is memory...