Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Tory and Labor M.P.s hastened to agree. At the same time Attlee warned that the burden of working out internal unity and stable government rested on the Indians themselves. A familiar reservation and reminder was heard from the Tory side. Said dour Sir John Anderson, former Governor of Bengal: so long as Britain is responsible for law-enforcement in India, she has "a predominant right" to a voice in framing the new constitution...
Drowned in Giggles. Spectators were convulsed. George's own high-pitched chuckle frequently rang out. Even dour Senator Robert Taft occasionally rubbed his balding pate and smiled...
...fill the overseas job left vacant by Eisenhower, the Army picked 62-year-old Air General Joseph T. McNarney, dour, black-browed Irishman who served most of the war as Marshall's deputy in Washington. To take Nimitz' place, the Navy picked Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, able, unspectacular commander of the famous Fifth Fleet. As Spruance stepped in, his spectacular alternate in the Pacific campaign-Admiral "Bull" Halsey, boss of the Third Fleet-hauled down his flag, remarked, "I deem it necessary for men of my age [63] to step aside," and walked ashore, headed for private life...
Combat Journalism. Pravda has not mellowed with age. For the 10,000th issue its dour, bald, 66-year-old editor, David Iosifovich Zaslavsky (who that day received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class) wrote another lecture on freedom of the press...
...piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...