Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes and devaluation, Qrit-ons can expect their cost of living in 1968 to increase at least 5% and possibly more. But Jenkins also announced that he intends to hold Britain's wage increases to a maximum of 3½% for another 18 months. That grim arithmetic means that Britons will not get enough extra money to meet the rising costs. As a result, for the first time in 17 years, the British will experience a downturn in their standard of living...
...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. More grim evidence that the Allies wrote off the Jews as war casualties after having failed to face their plight in the '30s. The U.S. Congress, F.D.R., and especially the State Department come in for some scalding rebukes...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...
...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin, and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. More grim evidence that the Allies wrote off the Jews as war casualties after having failed to face their plight in the thirties. The U.S. Congress, F.D.R., and especially the State Department come in for some scalding rebukes...
...offered a grim reminder, for Rise and Fall displayed the sins of the Third Reich with chilling clarity. Drawing upon 2,000,000 feet of old German newsreels and propaganda movies, and newly filmed interviews with some of Hitler's former cronies, Rise and Fall recreated the era in indelible detail. Who could turn away as the cunning on Hitler's face changed to frenzy while he ranted before a monster rally? Who could miss the dedication of his followers as they cleared Germany's streets of Hitler's political and ideological enemies, or as they...