Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptians have barred all Israeli ships and have halted eight ships of other flags on the way to or from Haifa with Israeli cargoes, in defiance of the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and a specific U.N. Security Council ruling. But the log of the steamer Panaghia had the grimmest story to tell. Laden with 520 tons of cement for Eilat, the Greek ship under charter to Israel sailed from Haifa on May 24, commanded by brawny Veteran Skipper Kosta Koutales, and manned by a crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await...
...grimmest picture sequences of 1955 showed a French gendarme shooting an unarmed Moslem to death during a period of rioting in Algeria (see cut). Filmed and widely shown by Fox Movie-tonews, the photos were also published in LIFE. Last week, in the heated French election campaign, the accusation was made that the cameraman had bribed the policeman to shoot down the Algerian to provide some exciting footage...
Unhurt herself, Maria had just witnessed Portugal's grimmest air disaster. Shortly before she heard them roaring above her head, twelve U.S.-built Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force left the Ota air base to take part in an air force show to the north at Coimbra. None of them could see the fog-shrouded mountain on which Maria stood beneath them. As they hurtled forward in tight formation, the four top planes cleared the peaks without harm. The eight planes below them plowed head-on into the mountain, killing all eight pilots and reducing Portugal...
...uninitiated in art, the Museum is a somber place. One of them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
What with charts, tabulations, percentages, and frequent passages of intricate reasoning, the Student Council's review of General Education at Harvard in no easy report to wade through. Yet although its prose may be of the grimmest variety, its conclusions and recommendations make it one of the best Council reports in several years...