Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen Elizabeth, the California weather was a surprise. For residents, it was a grim and ugly rerun of the storms that had lashed the state in late January. Only this time it was worse. Last week's floods, high waves and winds left at least 16 dead, caused more than $160 million in damage, and forced 10,000 residents to flee their threatened or damaged homes. "I'm getting tired of this," said San Francisco Meteorologist Chuck Terrell...
...desire to send more advisors was underlined by a grim White House briefing of Congressional leaders. United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirk Patrick and National Security Advisor William P. Clark warned Congress that the situation in El Salvador was deteriorating rapidly and the Salvadoran army was waging an increasing uphill battle against the leftists. And Reagan himself conjured up images of the infamous "domino theory" by stating, "We believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line of a battle that is really aimed at the very heart of the Western Hemisphere, and eventually...
...FILM is no grim war epic--lest the Tragic muse settle over the events like a vulture, a wonderfully rough comic sense continually jostles it aside, and the two end up coexisting guardedly. Symbolic of the filmmakers' attitude is the scene in the beginning of the film when Cecelia, sitting in church, stares at the horribly gruesome fresco of the torments of hell on the wall--in response to the crosseyed anguish of one of the damned, Cecilia crosses her own eyes in delight...
Given these adds against success, It is natural that the Special Concentrations Committee offers little encouragement to potential students Sprinkled throughout the application are grim warnings about the necessity for extreme self-motivation and perseverance for a successful Special Concentration. The warnings stress the extreme aggressiveness students will need, implying that any failure of special program stems from the student's own insufficient endeavor--not from Harvard's perversity is making the option so difficult...
...done something wrong. Years later my mother quite honestly said to me, 'I wanted to kill you when you were born, because I felt so angry at myself and so terrible about the pain I knew you were going to have.' I'm not grim, but I'm still basically cringing from the defect. I remember kids sniggering and smirking-they called me Hopalong-and it has only been in recent years that I've pulled myself out of a certain anesthesia...