Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers fly from their Thai bases. Everywhere on the great peninsula, militant Communism, poverty, misery, illiteracy, misrule, and a foundering sense of nationhood are the grim order of the Asian...
...Duvalier's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute (Creole for bogeymen) roam the country, soaking up blood money from businessmen, torturing and murdering suspected anti-Duvalieristes-sometimes even slaughtering whole families. Early this year, one mutilated corpse lay a whole day in the Port-au-Prince sun, as a grim lesson to Haitians...
Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...
...historians to assemble what they could from the records and statistics. At 76, Survivor Chapman is one of a dwindling group of 150 old comrades who share his memories. He is a historian (at the Universities of Leeds and Pittsburgh), but his academic work contains nothing so grim and memorable as this memoir of his battalion of the Royal Fusiliers...
While the political agitators in the cities railed against South Viet Nam's government and the U.S. presence, the allies went on with the grim and grinding task of preserving the nation on the battlefields. For six days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over mountaintops, darted down the alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall...