Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before leaving Washington, Symington set forth some of the problems that worry him. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he ticked off a grim list of the "liabilities" of the U.S.: "Recurrent large-scale unemployment; one-fourth of a nation living in poverty in a land of plenty; inflation, which hurts those most who need help most; millions of our senior citizens living on pittances; millions of our young people denied full educational opportunity; millions of farm families forced ever downward toward relative and absolute poverty; millions of families living in urban and rural slums; millions...
...Gentleman'sGame."In high school, Palmer got a stern lesson in controlling his temper on the course. Infuriated by flubbing a shot in a junior match, he sent his club sailing over a poplar grove. Going home, he found himself in a car with a grim father. "Pap told me that this was a gentleman's game, and he was ashamed of me," says Palmer. "If he saw or heard of me throwing a club again, he was through with me as a golfer. That did it." Settled down, Arnie Palmer twice won the state high school championship, then headed...
...Annunzio, by Anthony Rhodes. An entertaining biography of the fabulous Italian poet-soldier, whose antics intoxicated Italy with blood, glory and poppycock, and did much to prepare the nation for the grim Mussolini hangover...
Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess. That the worst criminal can be self-pitying is proved in this grim memoir by the SS captain, since executed, who gassed 2,000,000 Jews at Auschwitz...
...London's cinemas last week, a grim, low-budget little picture called The Angry Silence played to packed audiences and drew queues at the box office. Its story: the ordeal of a factory hand ostracized by his mates for refusing to join a wildcat strike. As punishment, his fellow union members "sent him to Coventry"* and thus condemned him to life in a silent, hostile world...