Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide during early pregnancy. What was to become of the little victims? With legs and arms deformed or missing, some of the babies promised to be lifelong basket cases. All seemed unequipped to face their uncertain future...
Have I left anyone out? Please overlook it, for there is an explanation. It is a very nice thing when a grim old reviewer can go to a local comedy and just laugh and laugh. Hats off to the Loeb; it has come...
...These "grim prognoses" are further darkened, said Gavin, by the position of the Labor Party, which may come to power in the next general election...
...their annual four-day protest march to London, Britain's ban-the-bomb Aldermaston Marchers were snugly camped out at Reading when down swooped Scotland Yard, looking terribly grim. Wot's this? demanded the sleuths, and went around seizing a curious little pamphlet entitled R.S.G.-6 from the marchers. It outlined British plans in the event of a nuclear attack, even pinpointed emergency centers of government in case London is destroyed-along with hints that the marchers might want to picket one such site along their route. Publisher: an outfit calling itself "Spies for Peace...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Sorcerer has powerful magic. Depending on whether they believed their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...