Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dour-lipped Prime Minister John Curtin rode a Parliamentary bucking horse through the first 23 months of Australia's wartime Labor Government. The Opposition barked at his heels like Kelpie dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition...
...Against. For this reason, Britain strenuously opposed upping of the gold percentages. But Dr. White and dour Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, went ahead anyway. They intend to keep right on going ahead, plumping for their plan before a conference of Federal Reserve Bank officials in Chicago this week, before Congressional committees. Both feel that there are no insurmountable differences between the U.S. and British viewpoints. But the revisions seem to push the U.S. and Britain farther apart...
...dour, able Shipbuilding Controller William Francis Gibbs, father of the Liberty ship which has answered the U.S. need for a swiftly built merchant fleet...
...Dour realists in the British War Office and the U.S. War Department growled that Pantelleria was a lesson not only in the possibilities of air power, but in the enormous effort required to apply that, or any other, means of war. Sicily, they said, would take an effort many, many times that needed for Pantelleria. Italy and Germany would be a Sicilian campaign multiplied a thousand times...
...Secret Service men swarmed in and around the building. Ticketholders jammed the front door of the House wing. A Texas state senator and the Governor of North Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed to the galleries, where another hundred Secret Service men were scattered...