Word: grimming
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...debate is often intense. After three hours, a participant comes out, grim-faced, to make a phone call. "Hell," he mutters to himself, "if Schlesinger does what he wants to do, I'll never be able to go to Texas again in my life." Frank Moore emerges, calls his secretary and asks her to send up "one of those little blue pills in my desk." A few moments later Watson is out to ask for aspirin...
...grim prospect of a professional coast-to-coast gang methodically exterminating potential court witnesses and FBI informants has led the bureau to assign agents in 20 field offices to the case. Findings so far have strengthened the FBI'S hit-team suspicions. Two .22 pistols discarded after killings were traced to a Miami sporting-goods store that went out of business a few months ago. FBI lab tests show that the .22-cal slugs that killed Capone and Chin came from the same weapon -which has not been found. But both men were also linked through their mutual connection...
Little Choice. Rabin had little choice in resigning, since he was already under police investigation for violation of Israel's foreign currency laws. His stepping down, said a grim Rabin, was a "sad end" to a three-year political stewardship. Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz had another phrase for it: "the biggest political crisis in the history of the state of Israel...
...grim reality of flying today is that the margins of error are slim indeed and that any mistake can create a holocaust. The skies are filled with jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers. Closing speeds can reach 1,000 m.p.h. or more, making it difficult for humans to react quickly enough in the event of error. The congestion at major airports is so great at peak hours ?late Friday afternoon is especially bad?that air controllers have to order incoming jets to stack up at altitude intervals of 1,000 ft. The landing is a carefully choreographed minuet...
...roared down the runway-just as the Pan Am 747 taxied across his path. The two planes collided broadside. Flames and smoke towered into the sky. Sirens screamed. Ambulances and residents of Tenerife rushed to the crash scene to help. There was little they could do. As the grim count went on, at least 514 were feared dead-by far the worst disaster in aviation history...