Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britons were quite as unruffled. The country has been stumbling ever deeper into the throes of its worst recession since the soup kitchen days of the 1930s. Unemployment has climbed to its highest mark since the Great Depression: 2.4 million jobless, or 10% of the work force, and the grim predictions are that it could reach a watershed mark of 3 million before the end of the year. As the lines of the jobless have lengthened, businessmen as well as trade unionists have despaired. Interest rates have hit unprecedented levels...
...despite these grim statistics and economic outlook, survival rates and methods of diagnosis and treatment have improved consistently during recent years...
...Government was already looking ahead, seeking answers to difficult and even dangerous questions stemming from the Iran experience. The most important: What will the U.S. do if terrorists, emboldened by Iran's example, seize another group of American hostages? At the White House ceremony, a momentarily grim Reagan answered: "Let terrorists be aware that when the rules of international behavior are violated, our policy will be one of swift and effective retribution." The freed hostages led a crowd of 6,000 in applause...
...wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine a better place to read...
Waiting for what? Frequently for something bad to happen, or for a feeling, perception or mood to catch up with something bad that has happened. The stagnant '70s had their share of grim talebearers, notably Joyce Carol Oates, who attracted an unusually wide audience for a short-story writer. Reading the bulk of her work is like taking an unblinking look through the files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first...