Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrats, meanwhile, grumbled in grim disgust. After reading much of the Starr report, six-term Democrat David Skaggs of Colorado said, "I'm not sure we have a proper basis for impeachment, but I'm pretty sure the effectiveness of this presidency is pretty well destroyed." A six-term Midwestern lawmaker could barely finish his sentences as he tried to sum up his feelings, but he said he suspected Clinton would pull through. "I don't think this is impeachment, but that could turn as this report sinks in." Another Democrat said he was "personally outraged" by Clinton's behavior...
...murder of her 11-year-old granddaughter Ryan Harris. "I thought it was a 17- and an 18-year-old," Hampton told TIME, "not seven and eight." Hampton's shock reverberated around the U.S. as Chicago police charged two preteen boys with the August murder in the city's grim Englewood district, declaring the pair had confessed to killing Ryan for her brand-new bicycle and molesting her body with a tree twig. But Hampton was still puzzled. Police at the scene when Ryan's body was discovered had told Hampton that "a lot of semen and stuff" had been...
Then the White House went dark. There's nothing so rare at the Executive Mansion as a quiet Saturday, when people can relax and Presidents actually get to play. But this was a whole new kind of quiet--hollow and grim. Clinton was looking, simultaneously, at the most dangerous prospect of his public life and the most devastating chapter of his private one. He canceled his plans for the weekend to prepare for his testimony; Hillary went into seclusion. She virtually locked herself in a room upstairs, forswearing visitors and talking to no one other than her mother and other...
...week, when many Japanese deserted Tokyo to pray at the graves of their ancestors--an annual August festival known as O-bon--subway commuters were treated to a rare opportunity: enough elbowroom to actually open their morning newspapers. That was a mixed blessing, given that the news was so grim. Amid the usual litany of ominous rumblings about the sagging yen and anemic economy were reports that the Long Term Credit Bank, Japan's 10th largest financial institution--which is to say, bigger than almost any U.S. bank--was in imminent danger of collapse. The bank's "bottomless" stock price...
When National Security Adviser Sandy Berger woke President Bill Clinton at 5:30 a.m. with the news, the Commander in Chief's first concern was for the victims, his second for the perpetrators. A few hours later, the President uttered a grim public warning to the terrorists: "We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes." The U.S. has long believed that the only way to curtail terrorism is to exact justice by capturing and convicting individual culprits and retaliating against nations that sponsor them. Declared...