Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were times when, in my child's perception, it all seemed like a great (if frightening) adventure; not until much later did I come to understand the full dimensions of the horror created by nearly six years of war. My family's experience pales into insignificance in the grim sweep of events, but it was one of millions of similar stories-a mosaic of suffering and hardship on all sides of the conflict. We were fortunate. We survived...
...grim facts surrounding Oklahoma City, perhaps the grimmest is the one nobody talks about: against the backdrop of everyday American tragedy, 167 deaths is not many. Even if the darker fears now circulating were realized and this new form of murder began striking once or twice a year, the overall picture of violent death in America would barely change. In a typical year, guns kill 38,000 Americans and about that many die on our roads. These numbers routinely go up or down 2% or 3%-half a dozen Oklahoma bombings -- without making the front page...
...convenience" -- closer than Omaha to McVeigh's presumed base of operations in Junction City. Perhaps it was also easier to park in front of the Murrah building than the federal building in Dallas. Whatever the bombers' calculations, investigators on the scene have felt their grief turn to anger and grim resolve. "I'm not too old for this one," says a veteran of the World Trade Center investigation. "I'm not going to retire until we put these people away." --Reported by Nancy Harbert/Kingman, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...differently than they did before. And, of course, there would be truth to that, for the lives of most South Africans have not altered materially. But anyone who has spent more than an afternoon in the old apartheid South Africa, anyone who has visited even for a week the grim, oppressive, lopsided country run by ironfisted Afrikaners in Homburg hats, anyone who knew it then and sees it now knows the country is utterly altered. A year of freedom has filled blacks and whites alike with pride, with a sense of renewal and, most important, hope...
...Republican since Clinton's election, and others are expected to follow suit or to quit rather than make the switch. "Democrats have gotten over denial, and now they are in shock about their future," concludes James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "And their future looks pretty grim...