Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grim knock-on effect came as little surprise to those familiar with Czech history. In 1969, 28 Czech residents set fire to themselves in the 31?2 months after Palach's death, which brought some 200,000 people into Wenceslas Square to light candles and lay flowers. Thirty-four years later, relatively few came to mourn Adamec. But his death and the copycat immolations that followed have become a kind of Czech Rorschach test, as people seek and find explanations that may have more to do with themselves than with the suicides...
...reassuring dress codes broke down first. Masquerading as passersby and taxi drivers, Iraqi soldiers brought a grim new meaning to the old term "theater of war." Surrendering conscript or armed militia member? Distressed pregnant woman or canny suicide bomber? The difference between combatants and noncombatants was in the eye of the beholder, suddenly. For a coalition sentry manning a checkpoint, the penalty for guessing wrong was death--his own death if he failed to fire in time or that of an innocent if he fired too hastily...
...that TFs work far harder to make section run smoothly than many undergraduates recognize does not mean that sections deserve any better than the bum rap that they get from most students. Any given section—regardless of the quality of the TF—is at best grim, and usually far worse...
...laughed. Everyone I showed it to laughed,” Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail. “Harvard College will be a very grim place indeed on the day we can no longer laugh when people make...
After Bush's speech, as they were about to move out, their battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy, addressed them: "Demonstrate to the world that there is no better friend and no worse enemy than a U.S. Marine." He added, "We've got a very grim job ahead of us, gentlemen. If the Iraqis try to fight, we'll slaughter them. This is not going to be a fair fight...