Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There will be death, killing," predicted Vickie Singer, a leader of the polygamous clan holding out in a log cabin against some 150 police and FBI agents in Marion, Utah. When authorities finally broke the 13-day siege last week, her grim prophecy became truth. Lieut. Fred House, 35, a state prison dog handler, was killed by shots from the cabin. The clan's male leader, Addam Swapp, 27, was wounded by officers. After the exchange of gunfire, the remaining 14 family members, including nine children, surrendered without injury...
...face of such grim conditions, Joe Clark has found himself the touchstone of a rekindled national debate about how to put things right in a city schoolhouse gone wrong. In the words of P. Michael Timpane, president of Teachers College at Columbia University: "Joe Clark brings out a lot of broad issues that may not have clear answers." While raising issues, however, Clark has also raised a forest of hackles for like a lot of people who do things their own way and damn the torpedoes, Clark has stirred up as many critics as admirers. And in the wake...
Afterward, she met the media and thanked them for not sticking her with the obvious nickname "The Grim Reaper...
...pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check charge (later dismissed). After her breakthrough film roles in American Graffiti and Magnum Force, her therapist observed that she was ill prepared for good fortune. Somers' sister and two brothers all followed their father in alcoholism. But the real point of this grim but touching account is that parents and siblings, the drinkers and those who stoically enabled others to drink, eventually turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon and were able to rebuild their sense of self and family. "Understanding brought relief and clarification," Somers concludes. "Even if the rest of your...
Outside class, students led a grim existence. Gorbachev spent the first three of his student years in the shabby Stromynka student hostel, an 18th century former barracks that housed 10,000 young people packed eight or more to a room. There was a kitchen and a washroom on each floor, but no proper bathing facilities. Gorbachev and his roommates would head to a public bathhouse twice a month. They stored their personal belongings in suitcases under the beds. Many of the youths could not even afford tea. Instead, they drank "student tea," a concoction of hot water and sugar...