Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Situation. By 2 a.m., Eisenhower had been taken to the white frame Army hospital at nearby Fort Gordon, and was resting comfortably in Suite T4, a special five-room, cottage-like suit: that is always held vacant for him when he is in Augusta. A team of heart specialists was summoned, including Dr. Thomas Mattingly of Washington, who had treated Ike in 1955. Mattingly and Ike's son John were whisked down to Georgia in a White House JetStar...
...hospital, the situation seemed grim. The patient was 75 years old, his heart scarred from his earlier attack. Doctors put him under an oxygen tent and began a series of intensive tests. First results indicated it was no more than a mild attack of angina pectoris, meaning that there was an insufficient flow of blood to the heart muscle, largely as a result of hardening of the arteries. Ike himself was cheerful. The oxygen tent was removed and he even fed himself a light, low-fat breakfast, later sat up in a chair. Everyone perked up; doctors said the general...
...story meeting room in Salisbury's Milton Building. To a man, they felt that Wilson had never intended to compromise, and had only been leading them on. His message was finally delivered by British High Commissioner John Baines Johnston, who spent 50 minutes alone with Smith and left grim-faced...
...anything that they asked in order to stay near her, rather than be shipped off to a forced-labor camp in Germany. When he returned, a hunted, hated collaborator, to her after the war, she hid him in the empty garret above her second-story apartment in a grim, redbrick building in a working-class suburb of Lille...
Nearly 175 people squeezed into the City Council chambers Monday night as a private group of urban planners presented the grim political alternatives Cambridge faces in its fight against the Inner Belt...