Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark-suited men and their very proper wives averted their eyes as they strode purposefully past the bikini-clad girls at the pool. Their minds were dwelling on grim business, not frivolous hours in the sun; their voices were cleared for psalms and hymns that could drown out the incessant Muzak. The occasion was the Sixth Congress of the International Council of Christian Churches, held at the smartly modern Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. It was no accident that the L.C.C.C. chose Geneva, and the Intercontinental, for its meeting. The hotel is practically on the doorstep of the World Council...
...gave the lake a complete medical checkup. They plumbed its depths, studied its surface, tested its water and measured its oxygen. With its findings in hand, the department held a two-week-long hearing for the five states that form Erie's watershed. The proceedings began with a grim conclusion: the lake has been brought to its deathbed by the citizens and industries that surround it; only a massive transfusion of money and effort can save it from becoming a North American Dead...
...same grim was staged...
Foxhole Privacy. Grim as it all sounds, every court-martial sentence is automatically reviewed and often lightened in the process. The local commander may cut any sentence (though he may never increase it), after which his actions are reviewed by a Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer from the accused's branch of the service. For all major sentences, the next step after the commander is a three-lawyer "JAG" board of review in the Pentagon...
Five Possibilities. In the series of meetings that preceded his press-conference speech last week, the President presided with monumental patience and a calmness that bordered on the grim. With his long right arm, he would wave at a colleague and ask questions. How do Vietnamese villagers feel? What do they say? You say that our bombings are effective? What do you mean? What are the figures? Let's see them. You say that the South Vietnamese army is "fine"? How do we know? How is their morale? How many deserted last month? How many enlisted...