Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real estate prices. Though the roulette wheels will continue to turn at Monte Carlo, gambling provides only about 5% of Monaco's income. With the incentive gone for foreign businessmen to set up headquarters in Monaco, Prince Rainier's prosperous little fief faces a grey and grim future...
...continued, is "an era when it will become increasingly improbable that either side could destroy a sufficiently large portion of the other's strategic nuclear force, either by surprise or otherwise, to preclude a devastating retaliatory blow. This may result in mutual deterrence, but it is still a grim prospect. As the arms race continues, the possibility of a global catastrophe, either by miscalculation or design, becomes ever more real. But until we can find a safe and sure road to disarmament, we must continue to build our own defenses...
Couve arrived an hour late for the start of the meeting at Quatre Bras, the modern Foreign Ministry building. Newsmen's questions to him died in the air at the grim set of the Frenchman's face. A path two feet wide miraculously parted the crowd and like an apparition-or a leper-Couve moved unmolested to the elevator...
Despite the impressive cold war victory that Kennedy scored when Khrushchev called back the missiles, Castro's Cuba, both past and present, remains a heavy burden upon the Administration. And instead of lightening that burden, Bobby Kennedy's comments on the Bay of Pigs only revived grim memories and nagging doubts that had begun to fade...
...detonations that greeted his end-of-the-week budget message. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock all but kissed the U.S. goodbye. "Item by item," wrote Krock, "the budget reflects the weird and incessantly disproved economic theory that government can bestow all these material benefits without a grim reckoning at any time in the future. It is the death of a viable economy that is risked by the items which pile on the billions." Predicted the Omaha World-Herald: "If his proposed budget is adopted, America may get to the moon but it is likely to be several light years...