Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many a Rhodesian went to the polls last week to the tune of a grim little ditty called "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow U.D.I...
Trujillo's favorite titles were "Benefactor of the Fatherland," "Chief Protector of the Working Class," "Genius of Peace." In a grim way, there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills...
...grim war pounded on. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes last week continued their daily raids to the North, striking at roads and munitions dumps, trucks and bridges. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed that air strikes in North Viet Nam had already shattered 24 vital bridges (see following pages) and that more would fall in the immediate future. On the ground, South Vietnamese troops continued their steady pressure on the Communist Viet Cong, and in swampy Kien Hoa province, 50 miles south of Saigon, government Rangers, supported by U.S. jets and helicopters, killed at least 150 Viet Cong...
...very stage where he made his U.S. debut in 1928, Vladimir Horowitz, 60, played on and on-but never for the public. Finally, after twelve years of self-imposed retirement, the pianist announced he would perform one more concert next week. Some 1,500 fans formed a grim, silent queue for tickets, which were so scarce that even Walter Toscanini, Arturo's boy and Horowitz's own brother-in-law, had to stand in line for three hours...
...sandbag crow's nest on top of a tall building near the Thames." So somberly, portentously, Edward R. Murrow began an evening broadcast of the London blitz in the early days of World War II. To listeners in the U.S., his resonant, sepulchral voice came to convey the grim reality of war. Murrow followed Londoners on their way to air-raid shelters and caught their measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow of flak and fire. "The fall of Britain," said a friend, "would have been...