Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blinking bracelet around like a goofball until I realized I was one of about six people in the press box who had even bothered to take it out of the little yellow suitcase. The volunteer in charge of leading the cheers from the press section had a very grim job indeed...
...rebels in a thousand small ways, showing up at interviews without the usual grim-faced handler and shrugging off a 9:30 p.m. curfew in favor of a refill of iced coffee. The boyish bowl cut has been replaced by long, highlighted locks and a Sporty Spice wardrobe of tight T shirts, baggy clamdiggers and unlaced Nikes...
Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...seabed, along with the six other nuclear submarines, four of them Russian, that have sunk in the age of the atom. The double steel hull of the Kursk will provide some containment for the reactors, which are encased in heavy, steel pressure vessels. The submarine would provide a grim and poignant memorial for the 118 sailors who served, and died, onboard...
...every three Nigerians lives below an already very low poverty line in a country with vast stores of natural resources. The average per-capita income flits about the $1,000 mark. The CIA paints a grim picture of the country's infrastructure: Its roads are falling apart because of the heavy freight trucks that pound the pavement. Those trucks, the CIA says, are on the highways because of the collapse of Nigeria's railways after years of neglect. U.S. aid to Nigeria has mushroomed from $7 million two years ago - funneled around the government to humanitarian groups - to $108 million...