Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominant rhetoric of Reagan's early years in office--grim warnings about the communist menace, invocations against the "evil empire" and denunciations of America's supposed "cave-in" to the Soviets during detente--has suddenly become passe...
...That grim diagnosis is based on a detailed 2,000-page report summing up a 15-month investigation. The document charges that the Jersey City system is afflicted with "political patronage, union pressure and cronyism." Former Mayor Gerald McCann, for example, reportedly laid off dozens of teachers who failed to support his political campaign. School-board members (all city-hall appointees) have been accused of such shoddy financial supervision that favored contractors collected some $3 million above approved funds. A gym teacher became his school's personnel chief after his union backed the election of incumbent Mayor Anthony Cucci -- whose...
...tutor, Martha C. Abbruzzese '91, who had left Cambridge only half an hour earlier, returns his gaze in shock. There are no bars, no armed guards--at least not here in the Program Area at Deer Island prison. The inmate's grim face and worn clothing belie the classroom-like atmosphere. For a minute, murder almost seems possible...
...already lost the basketball Bullets and football Colts, is that Williams is seven surgeries into a heroic fight against cancer. "If I die," he has said, "the team will be sold." Though the city is offering Williams a new stadium, he seems to be resisting signing any lease. A grim knowledge of trustees and their responsibility to highest bidders makes Baltimore wonder if this melancholy team is the final edition...
...apply the colors of his passions and peculiarities. First, he meets Arthur. Then Arthur introduces him to Phlox and Cleveland. Soon, he comes in contact with a world he had barely scraped the surface of in his early years: his father's world. Pittsburgh--smoke-filled and grim--serves as an an appropriate counterpoint to Bechstein's colorful journey...