Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first three games and needed to win the fourth in order to control its own destiny heading into the final weekend of the season. But the Bears jumped out to a big lead and, down 8-1 in the sixth inning, the Crimson’s future looked grim...
There was little relief to overcrowding in space-crunched Cambridge this year and the prospect for relief in the immediate future remained grim...
...former chair of the Senate Committee on Finance painted a grim picture of the future, saying the world is in as much danger now as it was during the Cold...
...Laden, whose al-Qaeda has aided Kashmiri armed militias, would love India to make the same mistake, for Kashmir to become one more entry in the grim litany of places where Muslims are supposedly oppressed by unbelievers. Then India really will be in trouble (not least with its 130 million strong Muslim minority). To avoid that fate, Delhi needs to do what it has never really done: recognize that Kashmir is a political question that needs a political solution, think hard about what such a solution might be and welcome outside help in finding and implementing it. India is indeed...
...rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death and loss, spent sifting through the wreckage in hopes of finding human remains...