Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Jane Grim was one of the biggest reasons why the Maroon had problems creating any scoring opportunities. With 12 minutes left in the second half, Springfield threatened to score, but Grim cleared the ball across midfield to end the threat...
...worked a lot on our game during practice," Grim said. "The team just played a lot better...
...grim new provisions are far different from the liberalizing reforms begun by Kadar in 1968. Those initiatives had gradually introduced small-scale free enterprise, allowed farmers to sell crops at market prices and permitted families to boost income with after-hours work. Last week's changes will produce a decline of as much as 15% in real income for ordinary Hungarians next year. In addition, the closing of inefficient enterprises under a new bankruptcy law could in the direst scenarios put as many as 500,000 people out of work...
...getting our teamwork together," Grim said. "In this game, we were passing more, which is the way we are used to playing. As opposed to the Northeastern game, we concentrated more on our game...
...suttee, requiring a woman to immolate herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, was abolished in British India in 1829. But early this month, when her young husband died suddenly of gastroenteritis, Roop Kanwar, 18, a bride of just eight months, declared her intention to revive the grim custom. By that afternoon thousands of people had gathered to witness her immolation. After taking a ritual bath, the woman dressed once more in her bright red bridal finery. Sitting atop the funeral pyre with her husband's corpse, his head on her lap, she asked her teenage brother...