Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Reign. After King Edward sickened at balmy Biarritz, but managed to die gamely of bronchitis in inclement England, King George faced at the outset of his reign in 1910 the grim political dilemma which many Englishmen thought had worn down his father and quickened Death...
...face of those grim numbers, the medical and pharmacological communities are scrambling. Drug companies are rolling out new medications to join the arsenal of blood-pressure drugs already on the shelves. Physicians are routinely checking pressure in younger and younger patients. Public-health officials are launching new information campaigns, trying to raise public awareness in the hope of getting to the at-risk population before it's too late. Such large-scale mobilization may be the only way to get the problem back in check. "There's good evidence hypertension can be controlled," says Dr. Darwin Labarthe, acting chief...
...flirting with hugely problematic concepts, but I’ll make two arguments in my own defense. The first is that I’m still young, and therefore have something of a license to be hopeful; I don’t yet have to accept some of the (grim?) impossibilities that Prina seems to have internalized so thoroughly. The second is that Prina himself is no stranger to introducing and examining problematic concepts in his own work, and so I think it’s only fair that he grant me room to explore this...
...Like a grim Choose Your Own Adventure book, I’ll provide two alternate endings, neither particularly cheery, I’m afraid...
...with, unattended by retribution?" The prison camps in North Korea are the Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together detailed information-gathered mainly from extensive interviews with more than 30 former inmates-about the horrors in the camps. Hawk, who ran the U.N.'s human...