Word: grimming
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...dingy room in a grim penitentiary, out of my mind, I looked over at the man next to me, a Polish embezzier from Worcester, Mass. I could see him so clearly, I could see every pore in his face, every blemish, the hairs on his nose, the incredible green-yellow enamel of the decay in his teeth, the wet glistening of his frightened eyes. I could see every hair in his head, as though each was as big as an oak tree. What a confrontation! What am I doing out here, out of my mind, with this strange mosaic-celled...
...famine threat-unlike kwashiorkor, the debilitating protein deficiency that threatened Biafra earlier this year-stems from a shortage of carbohydrate staples such as yams. The Biafran government is attempting to prevent the worst by urging farmers to plant more rice, but the outlook is grim. "The stocks will be gone by January," says an aide to Lieut. Colonel Odu-megwu Ojukwu, Biafra's leader. "There is nothing to plant and nothing to eat in the lean months from May to September. Nor will there be a harvest next September...
Outside the high, grim wall that surrounds the house, hawkers shout, traffic rumbles and pedestrians chatter. Inside the wall, no one speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room...
...some reason, the New Leftists were not charmed. Leaders like Tom Hayden continued to talk owlishly of "imperialism" and "cooptation" ("I thought he said copulation" deadpans Abbie.) So the hoped-for meeting of political hotheads and acidheads failed. To the yippies, the directors of S.D.S. appeared grim, uptight, overly prone to meting out violence...
Earlier, similarly grim testimony had come from Actress Kitty Arseni, accused by the Athens regime of having been an intermediary for the recording of a "freedom poem" by Composer Mikis Theodorakis. In Athens, a government spokesman announced angrily that Greece would boycott further commission hearings this week if the sessions were not kept secret. Marketakis and Meletis, meanwhile, were granted permanent residence in Norway...