Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest between prosecutors in California and neighboring Nevada is grim, but the two states have a common goal: they want to make certain that Gerald Gallego will die. A jury in California's Sacramento County last May convicted Gallego, 37, a former truck driver, of kidnaping a college couple, raping the woman and then killing both students. Gallego, whose father Gerald was executed in Mississippi in 1955 after a murder conviction, was sentenced to die. Says James Morris, the chief prosecutor: "He's a chip off the old block...
...discrimination based appeal when it is finally forced to consider the issue? Not good, agree most constitutional scholars. According to Dershowitz the Burger Court will in all like hood handle the issue "the way they've always handled its poorly stupidly nastily, and without compassion it's all very grim...
...First Deputy Premier. It was a clear indication that Gromyko had emerged, along with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, as a key power-broker in the post-Brezhnev era. But after more than 26 years as Foreign Minister, during which he has worked with nine U.S. Secretaries of State, the "Grim Grom," as he is known in Western diplomatic circles, has not built a political power base at home. Gromyko has never appeared overly ambitious to hold his nation's highest office. A dark horse, he is more likely to stay in the stable or to find himself, like Chernenko, hitched...
Death-penalty opponents believe the race argument is the strongest one left in their arsenal. But the arsenal is dwindling. Even those who still expect the ultimate defeat of capital punishment are worried. "The Immediate future is grim," says the Rev. Joe Ingle, who leads a Southern prison-reform group. "We've got to brace ourselves for losing some folks. It's like being in a war." One loss came just three days after the court's proportionality decision. In Florida, Anthony Antone, 66, convicted of arranging the contract killing of an organized-crime investigator, was electrocuted...
...proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...