Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airline crashes in which 76 hapless passengers lost their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted forger who may have died in the other. In each case, the investigations centered on a grim possibility: the premeditated bombing of both planes in midair...
...grim wisecracks, masking solitude and self-pity, kept pouring with the bourbon. The best thing about his funeral, said Carney, would be the hernia his best friend would get carrying the casket. He called the friend's wife, told her to caution her husband not to say "funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears...
...Grim Alternative. In November Labor Secretary Mitchell escorted Dave McDonald to a secret meeting with President Eisenhower at the White House. McDonald apparently convinced the President that management's terms were so tough that the union would have to go out on strike again when the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction ran out on Jan. 26. Bent on preventing a renewal of the strike, Ike summoned Vice President Nixon and Secretary Mitchell to the White House shortly before he left on his around-the-world tour, instructed them to push hard to get a settlement...
...loss to Louisiana State, convinced that it was the better team, despite the score. In New Orleans' windswept Sugar Bowl, second-ranked Mississippi got its chance for revenge. "Go out there and take charge!" snapped Mississippi Coach Johnny Vaught at his team. Ole Miss did. Calm and grim, Mississippi tacklers crushed L.S.U.'s running game for a minus 15 yds., gave up only 8 yds. in six tries to All-America Halfback Billy Cannon, who had won the first game with an 89-yd. punt return (TIME, Nov. 9). On offense, Mississippi turned radical, riddled L.S.U. defenses with...
...hour run to the Welsh port of Milford Haven, the 700-ton St. Angus had run into one of the winter's wildest storms, which raked and pounded Britain from the Hebrides to the Scilly Isles. Off tiny Caldy (pop. 59) the seven-man crew faced a grim Christmas. Their food was running low. and there was little hope of getting more. The men of St. Angus radioed the situation to the mainland, and resigned themselves to riding out the storm on empty stomachs...