Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grim challenge to the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords ended in bloodshed with the death of hostage Nahshon Waxman, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier who was being held by members of the radical Palestinian group Hamas. Waxman, another Israeli soldier and three of the captors were killed during a rescue attempt by Israeli commandos, which came an hour before the expiration of the militants' original deadline for sparing Waxman's life. Under pressure from both Israel and the U.S., P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's security forces had arrested some 300 alleged Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip in a vain...
...grim tale began around midnight on Tuesday, when villagers in the tiny Swiss farm community of Cheiry, 45 miles northeast of Geneva, saw the moonless sky lit by flames over the farmhouse of Albert Giacobino, a wealthy retired farmer who had bought the place four years ago. Firemen who arrived at the scene found Giacobino dead from a gunshot wound. Tacked to a door of the farmhouse was an audiocassette with a rambling taped discourse about earth, sky and astrological alignments...
Peck says that the high cost of treating an unbuckled person injured in a car crash and the grim statistics of unbuckled fatalities make adopting the seat belt law "common sense...
...George MacReady) worried about preserving his good name, a prosecuting attorney (Richard Anderson) who actually raises a pointed finger to the heavens and shouts. "Find the accused guilty!" and a cast of sycophantic French civil servants. Douglas and most of the other actors have chosen to go for the grim, I'm-so-shaken-by-the-horrors-of-war-that-I-speak-in-a-monotone-without-any-facial-expressions effect. At first, this is somewhat compelling, but after an hour and a half one gets tired of trying to figure out Douglas's emotional state by watching the vein...
...road, Dole comes across as a much happier warrior than in the grim corridors of the Capitol. "My mother-in-law," he observes wryly, "tells me that I should smile more." He has good reason now. Though Dole turned 71 last month, chance has provided another pass at the prize he first sought in 1980. After he lost the nomination to George Bush in 1988, Dole recalls, he ! concluded that it "was probably the end. It seemed to me that that was my best shot." But serving as Senate G.O.P. leader under a Democratic President has allowed him to regain...