Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There seemed good reason for concern, for Saud is supposed to be suffering from hypertension, a weak heart, a polyp in his digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors...
...Vote of Confidence. But always, despite the serious intention of talking about economics, that pesky problem of Cuba kept popping up. Arriving in San Jose the day before Kennedy. El Salva dor's President Julio Rivera spoke to his greeters with a grim quip: "Let us first have a minute of silence for me. Castro said I would be dead by now." In his first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit...
...Writer Ilya Ehrenburg, 72, drew scorn for the title of his 1954 novel, The Thaw, which, said Nikita, suggests political "impermanence and instability." As for Ehrenburg's memoirs, which have been running in the literary journal Novy Mir, Khrushchev remarked caustically, "one notices that he depicts everything in grim tones." Khrushchev warned the veteran Ehrenburg against "slipping into an anti-Communist position...
...life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach, and the whole canvas tingles with their impatient eagerness for the water. At a calmer moment, two young school-boys-one with sleeves tightly rolled up-play out a grim game of checkers. One of the pictures that Mrs. Kennedy bought. Boys at Holly Beach, N.J., is in this vein, and to some eyes it may look like Jack, Bobby and Teddy on the Cape. The other is a watercolor of the artist's wife; Jackie paid "less than...
...used to be democratic dogma that revolutions were a good thing. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," said Jefferson. But the tree of liberty has fared poorly in the blood baths of this century. The grim example of the Bolshevik and other revolutions has caused political theorists to take a second look at revolutions...