Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the week, the site of those sacrifices was slowly, even tenderly, pulled apart in the search for bodies. As bulldozers grumbled back and forth, cranes hoisted away slabs of concrete, their steel rods bent crazily and stuck with bits of uniforms. The Marines were aided in their grim task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop...
...five of his siblings live in and around Atlantic. They and his mother (his father, a World War I veteran, died last year) sensed in Ed a grim apprehension when he last visited in April, before Beirut. "He didn't joke around like he normally did," says Elizabeth. "This going to Lebanon bothered him," and he was "kind of withdrawn." Says Letha Kimm, 66, "I think he had a premonition...
...Instead of an air strike, McNamara began talking of a blockade, accompanied by "an ultimatum" to the Soviets, which he conceded would have dangers also. Said he: "This alternative doesn't seem to be a very acceptable one, but wait until you work on the others." That provoked grim laughter, but after many more meetings a blockade was decided on. It ultimately drew overwhelming support from world public opinion, and it induced the Soviets to pull their missiles out of Cuba without any necessity for the U.S. to fire a shot...
...Cruise travels from the Chicago North Shore glitz of Risky Business to the dying towns of the Appalachian Coal Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could...
...anticrime campaign is a more subtle reflection of the maneuvering to shore up Deng. Genuinely popular, the drive has as its official purpose simply eradicating a growing number of violent crimes. Every day, public bulletin boards are plastered with new execution notices, while grim truckloads of prisoners are driven back and forth to draw attention to the severity of their sentences. The campaign is said to have been directly inspired by the need to protect Deng, physically and politically. A rumor has it that an attack upon Deng's motorcade occurred in August near the seaside resort of Beidaihe...