Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that grim year, Republicans had little to cheer about. An exception was the gubernatorial election in Washington State, where Civil Engineer Daniel Jackson Evans, still in his 30s, bucked the Johnson tide and pulled off a long-shot upset over a two-term Democratic incumbent. Two years later, a flock of Republicans duplicated Dan Evans' blueprint. On Capitol Hill, where they added 47 Congressmen and three Senators, and in the statehouses, where they picked up eight governorships, 1966 was a G.O.P. year...
...drifts aimlessly from room to room, her wide brown eyes masking dark fantasies. She meets a boy, but he only adds to the uneasiness. A live ringer for her dead kin, he has this strange way of gazing at her. Is it love or a grim beckoning from the beyond? No firm answers are forthcoming, as past and present finally collide in a wild, whirling scene that ends not with a bang but a whaa...
...their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that of stopping time--freezing and thereby capturing an ever-undeniable reality...
...Soviet expert calls "a limited adversary relationship." It is not clear why the Russians chose to make some of their conciliatory gestures on nuclear arms. The likeliest guess remains the most obvious: prudent self-interest, a desire to avoid the scattering of nuclear weapons to small nations, and a grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from...
Everyone keeps track of the statistics, grim or absurd. Since the Military Armistice Commission began meeting, North Korea has charged the U.N. command with no fewer than 56,889 truce violations, most of them such minor procedural matters as the presence of improper arm bands on U.N. guards. The U.N. has admitted 93 violations and charged North Korea with 6,313. Pyongyang has admitted only two, the last one in 1953. It is so adamant about not taking blame for the increased tensions along the DMZ that it refuses to accept the bodies of slain North Korean soldiers, insisting that...