Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House was jampacked. Not in five months had the House of Commons heard from its star reporter, the man who more than any other could cast events in "scale, structure and proportion." Since then the Allied world had passed through the Moscow and Teheran meetings, known high hope and dour doubt. Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign. For one hour and 18 minutes, the full, familiar voice spoke...
Admiral Nimitz' simple statement of aim drew agreement from two other strategists who have an eye on China and the Philippines. Dour, realistic Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell promised to support Nimitz by "an aggressive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior." But Infantryman Stilwell barbed his statement with caution that "vital China-based air operations cannot wait for penetration of the blockade by land...
...spires of St. Basil's on Moscow's Red Square were touched with sun last week for the first time in two bleak months. Cracked passers-by:, "If spring is here, can the second front be far behind?" Cracked dour, war-worn Muscovites...
Agriculture: Carlos Montenegro, 40, pockmarked, dour, good hater and trickiest politico...
...game ended because first Russia and then the U.S. and Britain wanted it to end; because Turkey realized that the time had come to pay for postwar security. After the stimulus of the Big Three Conferences, the end of Turkey's game was a sobering anticlimax, a dour lesson in the realities which Europe still faces despite the promise of Teheran...