Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with the mounting proof of their error, the Viet Cong last week issued grim orders that "anyone saying that Nguyen Van Be is alive will be shot on the spot." Meantime, Be's name has been put at the top of a list of those marked for death, and a price of 2,000,000 piasters (about $17,000) has been put on his head. Viet Cong agents have been caught bugging the phones at the security house in Saigon to which Be has been transferred under heavy guard. Be's home village...
Every morning for three days, the string of cars crammed with grim-faced men streamed through Detroit's traffic to pull up in front of a different corporate doorway. Each time, a solemn platoon spilled from the convoy, headed by a familiar red-haired figure. A holdup? That was the way some people looked at it. For the red-haired leader was United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, and he was paying his now familiar triennial call on the nation's Big Three automakers to open negotiations for new contracts...
Worst Loss. In the past six months, the burdens in terms of U.S. casualties have become notably heavier, particularly in the U.S. Marines' war along the "Demilitarized" Zone between North and South Viet Nam. The action there last week provided grim illustration of the war's bloody turn. Spotting a small force of North Vietnamese grouping for what looked like an attack on the Marine post of Con Thien, two Marine companies moved up Route 161 to do battle. They ran right into an ambush. Two battalions of Hanoi's 324B Division, supported massively by mortars...
...conferees emerged from the first day's meeting beaming at each other and the world. If looks could melt the cold war ice, Gloucester County would have been flooded. Johnson, towering over his stocky, grizzled guest, wore his most affable smile; Kosygin, normally grim in public, grinned shyly. "We have exchanged views on a number of international questions," Johnson said. "We also exchanged views on the questions of direct bilateral relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America." It was, in the words of countless diplomatic bulletins, "a very good and very useful meeting...
U.N.I.P. officials have decided that brief hemlines are "immoral, un-Zambian" and "sex-ridden flaunted fripperies" of the white world. Determined to do away with such dangers to their native culture, young U.N.I.P. militants and grim, middle-aged female vigilantes armed with straight razors have stationed themselves as "morality guards" in public places. They stand ready to slash stitches and drop offending hems at the least excuse. Just as if miniskirts were difficult to spot, Zambian girls are often stopped and ordered to pick up a penny thrown on the sidewalk-if the man from U.N.I.P. sees too much...