Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will Stand." It was late July when the President of the U.S. summoned his aides to a three-day secret session to deliberate Viet Nam. Just back from Saigon was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with the grim prognosis of peril. When Johnson announced his decision, it was the most significant for American foreign policy since the Korean War: "We will stand in Viet Nam." To stand meant in fact that the U.S. would go to Viet Nam in overwhelming force and stay until the job was done. Why? "If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam," the President...
...HUNTER, by Allen R. Dodd Jr. Every career man's secret fear nightmarishly materializes in the ordeal of one Manhattan executive, abruptly ousted from his high-salaried berth in an ad agency. Dodd's palpable masterpiece of terror shadows the desperate job hunter on his grim rounds as he shrinks from breadwinner to abject pleader...
...asked "for your prayerful support of our message of peace." Then, he came out a side door of the cathedral to walk along its stone terrace, smiling and waving to the more than 50,000 people who thronged the surrounding streets. At one point, the Pope's grim-faced security guards had to dissuade him from walking down the cathedral steps into the crowd...
Though a moral outrage and a physical eyesore, it has stanched the drain of manpower that until 1961 was the worst economic problem in Walter Ulbricht's grim satellite. By thus stabilizing the labor force and preventing much-needed technicians from escaping to the West, the Wall has contributed substantially to a rise in East German production...
...come, either, because I believe that poverty is particularly moving or poetical. It is not one and not the other. It is three things: Drab. Sad. Grim...