Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a grim Wade Lau, who turned in a disappointing performance in the Harvard nests after being nearly All-world during last year's win. There was a frustrated Mark Fusco, the Boston-area native whose booming slapshot suffered the throes of a sprawling, hustling B.U. defense all game long. There was helpless Greg Olson, for whom the once friendly back of the net has gone for long stretches withough catching a puck off his stick...
...positioning of Boston Herald American Editor Don Forst. Originally, he was on the far left, and colleagues ribbed him that it was because his paper was about to fold. But in the doctored version, Forst is in a more central and seemingly secure position. Maybe things are not so grim in Boston after...
...special fanfare planned, the President completes a year in office, only one-fourth of his allotted term. The impact on Reagan of this first year is subtle, hard to detect by even those close to him. He tells more jokes than he used to, perhaps as a diversion from grim dilemmas and grimmer decisions. His infrequent secret moments may have lower depths than before...
...privations of banning are harsh, they are not as unpleasant in most cases as the more common punishment of indefinite detention without trial. In 1960 the government began to practice detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...
Speaking at a benefit showing of "Eight Minutes to Midnight," a documentary portrait of her personal fight for nuclear disarmament, Caldicott characterized the political situation as "really grim... more grim than when the film was made...