Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene was reminiscent of an unemployment office. But the thousands of grim-faced men and women who lined up in the office of the Massachusetts revenue department in downtown Boston last week were there to give money, not take it. Marveled one tax examiner: "It's the first time I've seen taxpayers storming the doors of the revenue department...
...cover picture of the ashen, waxy, lifeless figures of Reagan and Andropov standing back to back is chillingly accurate. This image of two grim duelists, neither of whom has anything to say to the other, offers little hope to a world awaiting the outcome of a mutual suicide pact. Bart Whiteman Washington...
...Office, Reagan blurted, "Our prayers have been answered. We've got him home." Two hours later, the President was surrounded by somber staff members who were grappling with the larger problem of peace in Lebanon. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld poured out his frustration. Other aides piled high their grim tidings of confusion and doubt. Yet Reagan rummaged through the debris for new ideas and different combinations, glints of hope no matter how faint. Finally Mike Deaver, who knows the inner Reagan better than anyone else, leaned over and said, "There's got to be a pony in there...
Last week's grim discoveries of "desa-parecidos"surprised no one in Argentina. From 1976 to 1979, during the military's "dirty war" against suspected subversives, at least 6,000 people disappeared, victims of death squads that often operated with official sanction. What gave Argentines hope was their new civilian government's apparent determination to bring to justice those responsible for 7½ years of brutal repression under military rule...
...industry. Bethlehem Steel used the period between Christmas and New Year's in 1982 to announce the closing of its 83-year-old steelmaking plant in Lackawanna, N.Y., near Buffalo, and the elimination of 7,300 jobs. Last week U.S. Steel, the largest American steelmaker, carried on the grim yuletide tradition. The company announced that it will close all or parts of 73 operations in 13 states, thereby cutting its steelmaking capacity 17% and reducing companywide employment...