Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOXVILLE, TENN.: Touring the city's slums, Johnson selected a seedy apartment building at random and went to chat with a weary woman with a babe-in-arms and torn sneakers. He emerged looking grim. At Knoxville's Coliseum, he tore into political critics of his poverty crusade. "Those who oppose us are determined. They have already, last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, called this war on poverty a cruel hoax. I first heard that phrase in the 1936 campaign when they called social security a cruel hoax...
...dessert time at the banquet marking Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's ceremonial visit to the Hanover Fair. Suddenly a Nachtisch of grim-faced police appeared. To the astonishment of the crowd, they arrested and marched away Fritz-Aurel Goergen, the president of the vast Henschel Works, whose $125 million in annual sales cover locomotives, trucks and heavy machinery. Before the week was out, two other Henschel executives had been arrested, and four had had their homes and offices searched. Germany was faced with what may be its biggest postwar business scandal, which quickly began making bold headlines and even bolder...
...cruzeiros to bankroll the National Student Union and other extremists of the left. Last week federal "interventors" were in command of most of Brazil's labor unions and state enter prises, including Petrobrás. Meanwhile, the arrests and imprisonments by the new government continued with a grim purpose that sent shivers up many Brazilian spines. No one knew how many people were locked up in jail. But the total of those stripped of their political rights climbed to 167, among them Celso Furtado, 43, the leftist but non-Communist boss of the successful development program in Brazil...
...tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn? Of your local theaters' grim neorealism and grimmer (at least in performance) Shakespeare? Then Pinafore is the thing for you. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are offering a relaxing amateur evening at Agassiz, and I had a rollicking good time...
...hardly that grim. Remembrance, what I have excluded, tends to flood back; the Mass River at night, with lights from cranes cutting the sky as though Rotterdam expected the bombers again; Curacao in the early morning, dry caked and smelling of oil; the union hall and the member who motions to "Kick all the winos, finks, and faggots out of the NMU!" (Curran replied "What d'ye want, a non-paying union?" General laughter...