Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard a lot of grim stories that this rule is really destructive to the educational experience of some students," Monro said. The Office of Tests will try to find out if this is generally the case...
...undertake no action, for the present or in the immediate future, as regards the rate of pay of the Teaching Fellow senior grade, since the funds for such an increase are not available. Indeed, given the Faculty's deficit for the current year and the grim outlook for 1967-68, our principal concern must be with efforts to control expenditures, though obviously not at the expense of graduate fellowships alone...
...turning down the pay request, the paper called attention to the current deficit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and "the grim outlook...
...member tribunal, its staff and audience included a few eminentance leaders, bearded boys and well-scrubbed young girls. What they heard was a grim recital from "witnesses" whom Russell had dispatched to North Viet Nam this year. They dutifully returned with reports of U.S. bombings of schools and hospitals, napalming of infants, experiments with antipersonnel weapons and numerous other atrocities...
Zeno tells the grim story of a single pathfinder platoon in that battle. Heartened at first because they encounter almost no enemy opposition when they land in their drop zone, the 50-odd men in the platoon soon discover that they are in fact hopelessly trapped. After a few days of unrelieved agony, death becomes relatively unimportant. What matters more is how it will come. Using prose as direct and brutal as a trench knife to the gut, and with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron...