Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tragic Crash. On the ground and in the air, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces also kept up their pressure on the Reds in a grim race against the arrival of the monsoon season. Fighter-bombers swarmed daily over North Viet Nam, blasting bridges, shooting up road and rail traffic, igniting petroleum storage tanks and striking within 55 miles of Hanoi. For the Americans, there were moments of tragedy: a pair of U.S. helicopters collided over Bienhoa airbase-the scene last month of an accidental chain explosion that killed 27 men and wrecked ten bombers. This time, nine Americans died...
...attitude of both labor and employer toward Miss Perkins," snapped New York's churlish Robert Moses, "is a good deal like that of habitués of a waterfront saloon toward a visiting lady slummer-grim, polite and unimpressed." Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior was constantly annoyed by her. "She talks in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath," he complained...
Thoreau had but this one olive green suit (though surely he should choose some fruit more Acadian to characterize its hue). Receiving the countenance of an understanding faculty, Thoreau took a grim delight in his impunity...
...search for social justice infused all of Frances Perkins's eighty-three years. In her youth she rebelled against the grim orthodoxy of social Darwinism, becoming first a social worker at Jane Addams's Hull House and later one of New York's leading advocates of social and labor legislation. The infamous Triangle Fire on March 25, 1911 shocked the state's conscience and awakened its people to the justice of her cause...
...platitudes spouted by Eartha Kitt, Richard Conte and Edmond O'Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...