Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER makes a not-so-gay era seem not-so-grim. The Porter wit is the guide on a tuneful journey through the past 40 years...
Plei Me is pronounced "play may," and the incongruity of the name must have struck millions of Americans as they watched the if grim film clips on TV screens night after night. Even motorists who flipped on their car radios must suddenly have got a tense, terrifying ringside impression of the war. "In one minute," said the voice of a CBS radio reporter in Plei Me, where several wounded G.I.s were awaiting evacuation, "an air strike will begin and a if helicopter might very well be caught in it. They have loaded two men on. Here comes the air strike...
...eloquently as the gunfire or casualty lists, the G.I. gallows humor vented at the low point of Plei Me's siege last week, expressed the professionalism and grim resolve of the U.S. fighting man in Viet Nam. In the beleaguered camp, American soldiers weathered 178 hours of constant mortar and recoilless rifle barrage, fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned...
Missed Guess. While fair participants were salvaging what they could, fair investors were licking their wounds. The day before closing, Robert Moses issued a grim report to stockholders. In spite of 51 million visitors, 6,000,000 more than any other world's fair, the fair had been a fiscal flop: Moses' calculations had been based on 70 million...
...mother-whereupon Caitlin, who by this time had decided that Dylan was frustrating her literary talents as well as her womanly instincts, screamed like a baby. The house became a bedlam, and tempers did not improve when the wolf once more turned up at the door-in the grim guise of the Treasury, which firmly demanded that Dylan deliver the income taxes he had dodged for years. Something drastic had to be done, and Dylan unfortunately did it. He arranged for the first of his four famous and ultimately fatal lecture tours...