Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Days Ahead. Florentines attacked the government for delays in relief. "How is it possible to move this mass of liquid and mud with shovels?" complained Mayor Piero Bargellini. "We need earth movers, bulldozers, trucks." In the Italian Parliament, Premier Aldo Moro was jeered-mostly trom the Communist benches-when he rose to speak. The government appropriated $320 million for emergency aid, raising the gasoline tax 6.4? per gallon...
...Sake, So!" To some extent, India's dark mood stems from the hopelessness of the country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
...Alignments? Erhard accepted the decision with grim calm. Refusing to quit or call new national elections, he doubled up the assignments of some of his ministers to cover the vacated portfolios and vowed to carry on business as usual. His strongest support was West Germany's constitution, which states that a Chancellor can be removed from office only when a majority of the Bundestag can agree in advance on his successor...
...city suffered more from the Depression-era bank failures than Detroit. Only two banks survived those grim days. The city learned its lesson, and even now its banking community is proud of its reputation as possibly the most cautious and conservative in the nation. It was therefore all the more shocking to Detroiters when last week the Public Bank of Detroit went insolvent in the biggest U.S. bank failure since the 1930s...
...Cronkite went to Moscow for two grim years as U.P. bureau chief. Back in the U.S., he was offered a job as a KMBC radio correspondent in Washington. The pay was good, but Cronkite was dubious. "News is a newspaper's business," he bluntly told KMBC, "and it isn't radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with...