Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aging industrial cities tied to the auto industry -Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago-plus many of the farm states. Farmers are suffering from the ancient miseries of drought and locusts in addition to the more modern plagues of low commodity prices and high interest rates. The situation is particularly grim in the Dakotas and Minnesota, where spring wheat is coming up brown for lack of rain...
They may not have known the grim details of that route: the heavy drinking at 15, the heroin addiction at 25, the two broken marriages, the ten years in hospitals, prisons and other institutions, the illness and waste and frequent despair. But they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto...
...ugly, and it's just not true. They think we're either butches or amazons, looking for a man, superbright or superdumb. Actually, we're very serious," she concludes, squinching down her eyebrows and miming a grim expression...
...cold, gray day in February, and the Radcliffe heavies must face the grim weight circuits, tanks, and ergometers. The crew knows the workouts will get harder, longer. A subdued atmosphere bred by depression engulfs the boathouse, until co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer trade quips, start laughing, and the crew loosens...
...newspaper publisher: "She didn't tell us it would be this bad." Her own Treasury ministers warn that much rougher tunes lie ahead, and some are queasy about the next election, even though it is probably four years away. The statistics of Thatcher's first year are grim. Inflation doubled, to 20%. Unemployment reached a postwar high of 1.5 million (6%) and is still rising. Interest rates soared to a record high of more than 20% to the average borrower. Bankruptcies multiplied as small firms were caught in world recession, 20% pay settlements and an overvalued North...