Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Search. The Americans, much less the Saigonese, can hardly be blamed for some nervousness. The battalions of U.S. troops that were brought into Saigon to root out the V.C. gunmen have mostly been withdrawn, but platoons of South Vietnamese airborne troopers last week continued a grim house-to-house clearing operation in Saigon's environs. Hard-core V.C. snipers continued to fire on U.S. military police and Vietnamese army patrols from rooftops and windows in Cholon. The government makes its presence felt all over Saigon. Police or soldiers guard almost every corner, have set up checkpoints throughout...
...against overwhelming odds. Last week in Viet Nam it joined the list of casualties. Not since the early months of 1965, when the Communists were on the verge of overrunning South Viet Nam just before the U.S. buildup, had the mood and prospects of the allies looked so totally grim...
...Leathernecks, taking grim note of each setback, only pressed the enemy harder. Sharpshooters with high-powered scopes hunkered down behind battlements in "secure" sections of the Citadel wall, squeezing off occasional rounds at moving targets. As they waited out the weather for air cover or rested for their next push, the unshaven, dust-covered Marines sipped endless cups of powdered coffee, occasionally breaking out a liberated magnum of French champagne to accompany their C rations...
Once again the U.S. had to separate fond hope from grim fact. On successive days, the Johnson Administration announced that reinforcements would be sent immediately to South Viet Nam and that the latest rumors about peace feelers from Hanoi had added up to nothing. As if to underscore the news, Communist forces over the weekend launched a savage new offensive across South Viet...
...story of his ugly ordeal behind Soviet bars for 18 months is as harrowing as anything in Koestler's Darkness at Noon, despite the fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...