Word: dourness
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...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...
Navy Secretary Frank Knox had been there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...
...Tall, dour, diffident Publisher Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and his arch -isolationist, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune have been, in the year and a half the U.S. has been at war, active obstructionists. They have sniped and ranted ceaselessly at the President and every phase of the war effort, have publicly doubted the necessity of rationing, have insisted that the U.S. is giving up strawberry jam to assure jam for British breakfasts, that OPA is spying on merchants, that England wants empire-as-usual, that the European war is not our first concern...
...face, headed the column of 2,000 prisoners. The Italians wore non descript dress: some blue, some grey, some brown, some in knickers, some in shorts, some in long pants, one without any pants. At the end of the column were about 50 Germans, well dressed, grim and dour, as unhappy about being captured as the Italians were happy." In the next few days the Eighth Army captured about the equivalent of a division, mostly Italians...