Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Multi-National Force were cooperating closely during the emergency. The Italians were providing medical assistance for the Americans, and the British took over from the Marines the guard duty on the airport boulevard. As the grim rescue operation continued, a state of shock prevailed in the city. On this day, which had followed a night of artillery duels in the hills, most people remained indoors, anxious and apprehensive...
...WELCOME TO N.E.P," reads a dimly scrawled sign on a grim black board as if an acronym alone is a raison d'etre for a new campus political group whose issues have been finely horrid to include the environment nuclear freeze Central America and whales. Soon students trickle in for the group's inaugural meeting each for a different reason, P.J. Kenney's Common Knowledge uses this fictitious organization to effectively examine why students are drawn to campus political groups a 1980's response to the lore of campus activism in the 1960s...
...past three years, Iraq and Iran have been like scorpions in a bottle, stuck in a war that seemingly has no end. Well over 100,000 from both sides have been killed; thousands more have been taken prisoners. Now, a new element may enter the grim struggle, possibly altering its scope and stakes: according to French press reports, neither confirmed nor denied by the authorities over the weekend, the French government is sending to Iraq five highly sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers. The planes, flown by French pilots, were said to have taken off from Landivisiau air base in Brittany...
Everything was against them in that grim time. The entire world was staggering from the effects of the Depression, and many countries felt they could not even afford to send athletes to a place as distant as California. "Just where is your state?" a Portuguese bureaucrat politely asked William May Garland, president of the group of businessmen who ran the California Olympics. When Garland marked the spot on the map, the bureaucrat sadly replied, "That is a long, expensive way from here." Even the officials of the international Olympic committee were discouraging. "For your 1932 ambitions, it now does...
...sofa. "You have to know something. People here are attached to a liberal system. This is our national feeling, our genuine feeling. Right now, in Lebanon, Syrians are taking political hostages. You are obliged to collaborate, go underground or leave. Some 'emigrate to the other world' [a grim allusion to assassination]. Foreign intervention in Lebanon is the main problem for the U.S. here. People will back the government that backs a liberal system. We are sincere and genuine in saying that we are talking about the survival of democracy in Lebanon. We are fighting for values, values...