Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Surprise. Led by a dedicated woman named Gloria Richardson, Cambridge Negroes had been demonstrating for months for a city ordinance guaranteeing equal access to restaurants, movies and other public accommodations and an end to other forms of segregation.* In mid-June, violence reached such a pitch that the local authorities asked Governor J. Millard Tawes to send in the National Guard. The Guard kept order, relatively speaking, for 25 days. During that time, leaders of both races negotiated a truce. Mrs. Richardson said she would keep her demonstrators off the streets for a few weeks to give the white...
...Irish barnyard and a mighty buss from a motherly country cousin. There was a hushed moment as two men of different ages and ideas-Kennedy and Adenauer-knelt and prayed together in the vaulted, 14th century Cathedral of Cologne. There was, as viewed from a West Berlin platform, the grim edifice of the Wall. More than anything else, there were the crowds, crying, "Ken-ah-dee! Ken-ah-deel Ken-ah-deel" And in their ecstasy of admiration, they pummeled the President in a fashion that must have given his doctors heart failure...
...this was in prelude to the deeply dramatic visit to West Berlin. There the Kennedy motorcade beat its way for four hours along 35 miles of milling humanity. Women broke through the barricades, children grabbed for the President's coat, people threw torrents of flowers. But Kennedy was grim as he approached the Wall. The East Germans had deliberately stretched three huge flags across the Brandenburg Gate so that the view was obscured...
...battle in The Magnificent Seven. He was TV's Hessian headhunter in Wanted-Dead or Alive, serving what he describes as "three hard mother-grabbin' years, but I learned my trade and it gave me discipline." His range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier, as he does in the forthcoming Great Escape. Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots...
...From foxholes and trenches now well ensconced in olive groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes and rusting "DANGER" signs...