Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Reds. Tito took good care of his prisoner. In grim Lepoglava Prison, Stepinac occupied a cell with an adjoining chapel, got good food and all the books he wanted. Unlike Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Archbishop Stepinac issued no pronouncements against the regime. He sat silent, and in the free world his silence sounded as a cry of reproach. Tito would gladly have been rid of him. Through a U.S. newspaperman he offered him his freedom if he would agree never again to practice his priesthood in Yugoslavia. Replied Stepinac bluntly: "I am completely indifferent concerning any thoughts...
...seventh of his nine days, Macmillan's Rolls-Royce swept past a few dozen whites waving Union Jacks and crying "Good old Mac," and a cluster of grim blacks holding up antigovernment placards, and up to Parliament to address a joint session. His speech had been drafted long ago in London to be the major effort of his trip. In the parliamentary dining room sat his expectant hearers, most of them bulky, stolid-looking Afrikaners...
...grim power struggle in Milwaukee last week, the State Democratic Administrative Committee changed the scoring system for Wisconsin's crucial Democratic primary election next April, and thereby cut the chances of clean-cut victory either for Jack Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey. After two hours of furious debate in a Kaiser-Knickerbocker Hotel suite, the committee's 26 members voted 14-12 to change the rules. Under the new system, each of Wisconsin's ten congressional districts will receive 2½ votes at the national convention, with five delegate-at-large votes going to the statewide winner. Under...
...shattered land of Author Pick's grim novel is Germany during the fall and winter of 1637-38. The Thirty Years' War, which began two decades before, has long since degenerated from a conflict of comprehensible religious and political issues into a series of dogfights among irregular bands of mercenaries. Troops move about the country without pattern, leaving one hamlet in flames as they stalk out to feed on the next. It is the captain of such a rogues' company before whom Vogel, the author's protagonist, is dragged. With nothing more at stake than...
Marxist Monastery. No one learns earlier than the Russian executive the grim tasks of stooging for the state, of apple polishing, buck passing, of loading ledgers and unloading responsibility, finding loopholes in Parkinson's Law and keeping ahead by one whisker in the career race. Marx wrote: "The Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class," but any bright boy of the commissar caste should have a good laugh over this. If he fails to make a grade, he disappears without appeal into the grey unprivileged proletarian mass below. Inch by inch, his nose ever...