Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Example. Saud's chances of ever regaining power in Saudi Arabia are almost nil. The country has made far more social and economic gains under the austere Feisal than it ever did under Saud. Even those Bedouin chieftains whose loyalty Saud won in the old days with bags of gold are not clamoring to have him back. The grim example of the 17 Yemeni terrorists whom Feisal recently had beheaded in Riyadh should also discourage dissident tribesmen from siding with Saud...
...Down. When Pierre Salinger asked him to get the Manchester book for Harper, Thomas first declared: "This company doesn't want to make a penny from the murder of John Kennedy."* That sold the Kennedys on Harper. Once he had the manuscript and saw in what grim detail it discussed the assassination, Thomas tactfully urged that Bobby and Jackie avoid it and appoint surrogate readers. The go-betweens' suggestions for changes were so demanding that Thomas finally quit listening. Astonished at his independence, Kennedy loyalists attacked Thomas and even now spread cutting stories about him on the cocktail...
...Lindsay and campaign manager Bob Price faced May 14, 1965, when Lindsay announced his candidacy for Mayor, It was obvious that Lindsay could not rely on the regular Republican organization to bring in a victory - the party had almost no organization worth mentioning. But the situation was not as grim as appeared. Starting back in 1948, in Manhattan's ninth Assembly District, Lindsay and Price had been recruiting and training a group of young and enthusiastic followers, devoted to Lindsay and disillusioned with the closed and stuffy atmosphere of the regular party. From the ninth AD the people spread into...
Among other things, this book is recommended for Wall Street board rooms. It must be the first ironical chronicle of those times that does not even mention such grim facts as G.M. at 8 and Anaconda...
Yeomen was no less exciting dramatically than it was musically. Randall Darwell's set is a gallant attempt at reproducing the grim masonry of the Tower of London. Steve Michales' direction was excellent, although at times a questionable rendering of Yeomen the way Gilbert had intended it. The G&S Players have a tradition of making the plays funnies and livelier than the recordings would indicate, sometimes funnier than they are. Michales' conception tended toward the slapstick and away from the sentimental element -- which, let's face it, is there...