Word: grimness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...breast cancer diagnosed annually in the U.S., as many as 90,000 occur in women who are postmenopausal or over 50. In roughly half of these older women, the malignant cells have spread to nearby lymph nodes; some 30% die of recurring cancer within five years after surgery. That grim toll may soon be reduced. A National Institutes of Health advisory panel last week recommended the postsurgery use of a drug called tamoxifen in most of these cases, saying that it could cut the death rate...
...seaside resort the world over, eating out can be grim and costly. "The food in the Black Sea resorts is much worse and more expensive than in any of the restaurants in Moscow," complained one young woman. Despite indigestion and inflation, she and millions of others will continue to return for another dose of sunshine, sea air and the guaranteed right to rest...
...kind of Orwellian Newspeak in their pronouncements. Western leaders were invariably "certain imperialist circles," their followers "faithful lackeys." But the current Kremlin spokesmen slip easily into Western argot and affect a more relaxed, laid-back style. Ebullient Eduard Shevardnadze, the new Foreign Minister who replaced Andrei Gromyko (known as Grim Grom by Western newsmen), disarmed U.S. officials during a technical discussion of arms control at Helsinki last month with a rare display of Soviet humility. "Well, of course, I'm not a real expert!" he reportedly exclaimed and then turned to informally solicit the views of his delegation. Says Greg...
Kremlin watchers caution, however, that underneath their new veneer, most Soviet bureaucrats are the same old dogmatic apparatchiks. Propaganda within the U.S.S.R. is just as shrill and paranoid as ever. Reagan is sometimes & likened to Hitler by news organs. One wall poster currently displayed in Moscow shows a grim image of a U.S. monster threatening to rain down bombs from outer space. Overseas, disinformation remains a favorite tactic; the Kremlin rarely overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission...
...Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was executed in 1979, it was a grim homecoming. The 32- year-old graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities returned to Pakistan last week after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated...