Word: grimness
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Middle East experts and diplomats in Washington foresee grim implications for Egypt and other pro-Western governments that terrorists may regard as insufficiently Muslim. The U.S. has been pushing Mubarak to democratize. But Wayne White, a former top Middle East expert in the State Department, predicts that the Egyptian government will let terrorists goad it into overreacting. In recent years, White says, authoritarian governments in the region became convinced that "if you loosen up, you're in trouble." More worrisome: one of the groups claiming responsibility for the blasts said it has ties to al-Qaeda. "It is part...
...hard to comprehend what the immediate aftermath must have been like in Hiroshima. There were the grim tasks of collecting the bodies and burning them, of clearing the rubble and debris. In all, 2.4 million sq. mi. had to be cleared and surveyed-a painstaking process that took four years. But after the most destructive event in the history of warfare, normalcy did return-slowly, fitfully but, eventually, resoundingly. Hiroshima today is a pleasant, prosperous city of 1.1 million people, with everyday concerns that are mostly no different from those of any other city in the developed world...
...heard from her since, and she was not among the 47 victims who had been positively identified nine days later. "We're still waiting," Fiaz Bhatti, Ciaccia's fiancé, told TIME last week. During the wait, scores of police, medical and forensic experts were engaged in the grim but necessary task of trying to establish the identity of the victims - which is why Bhatti has been telling police about the birthmark under Ciaccia's left eye. Friends and relatives are spreading such details in hopes that some aspect will help identify the missing: Karolina Gluck, a 29-year...
...they seek to change our country or our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm." There were echoes of Winston Churchill when a grim-faced Tony Blair spoke from Downing Street last Thursday to express outrage and determination in the face of the dreaded attack on London that he had long warned was inevitable...
...shock of the London bombings reverberated because they occurred in circumstances--and in a city--that are familiar to so many around the world. The first images of the hellish scenes in the London Underground came from cameras on passengers' cell phones, the latest innovation in the grim art of terrorism documentary. While rescuers struggled to recover bodies deep in the tunnels, police became enmeshed in the painstaking forensic work that accompanies a scene of mass murder--checking out claims that a passenger on the bus had been seen fiddling with a bag, examining the chemical fingerprints of the explosives...