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Word: grimness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) The Simbas came at 7 o'clock. Grim-faced in their manes of monkey fur and feathers, they banged on the doors of the Residence Victoria with spears and gun butts, roughly hustled their white hostages out into the street. For an hour, the skies over Stanleyville had pulsed with airplane engines and apprehension. Watchers on the rooftops saw parachutes bloom and fall over the airfield to the west; gunfire ticked closer in the near distance. The Belgians had come, and help for the hostages was on its way-fast, but for many not fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...grey with shock and gaudy with bloodstains, hiked the mile and a half to the airport. There bullet-riddled U.S. C-130 transports-winged by rebel ground fire during the airdrop -waited to fly them to Leopoldville and safety. "It was not a happy, singing group," said Hoyt with grim understatement, "although I couldn't help feeling glad to be alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Question. A single life, or even a hundred, may not appear to mean much in the grim reckoning of Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...rebel regime kept announcing that 10,000 Americans were fighting alongside Tshombe. Except for an occasional refugee's horror story, little was known on the outside about the fate of the whites during that period. But last week, the grim details were filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...recounted by a Belgian tin-mine employee. As things turned out, the children were disappointed, for at the last moment one of Moise Tshombe's government bombers buzzed the town, and the rebels fled. But this and other stories coming to light last week added up to a grim composite picture of the Congolese rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The Hoodlum Rebels | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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