Word: dourness
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...think that's Eben Finney," replied his sour, dour friend. "And Frankely, I think we'd better get behind a Sandbach; here comes a Tiger aerial bomb...
Another airman was a less frequent visitor: dour, taciturn, officially ruthless Lieut. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, whose rise was in some ways symbolic of the Air Forces' new prestige in the Army. McNarney has a job of the first importance which might have gone to a groundsman. As General Marshall's trusted deputy, he alone is empowered to act in the name of the Chief on many matters which otherwise would sponge up General Marshall's crowded hours...
...House Agriculture Committee the Secretary's statement was just so much hogwash. Well they knew how the Administration had failed to see the danger of labor shortages in time, had failed to act. Snorted Minnesota's dour-faced August Andresen: "There are too many desk farmers in Washington. Fellows who think they can get milk by turning a spigot. Somebody ought to tell them about farming. They haven't done a damned thing about this problem in six or eight months and it's growing more serious all the time...
This huge increase is not due merely to huge effort. It is due primarily to a technological revolution. The most interesting figure in that revolution is a dour-visaged man who watches it with gloomy satisfaction from a waterfront office in Manhattan. His name is William Francis Gibbs-known solemnly to his friends as William Francis. Lawyer, engineer and head of Gibbs & Cox, he is the top U.S. naval architect and marine engineer. His firm designed Paddy O'Laughlin's landing ships. It designed the Liberty ships. It has designed merchant ships, destroyers, tankers, cruisers. It designs means...
...member of Wendell Willkie's party (who preferred not to be named) told the story in Ankara. He got it from British officers in Cairo. They got it from captured German troops. The story: dour, boot-tough Marshal Erwin Rommel was ill, had returned to Germany already, or was waiting to be relieved of his command. An Italian report put Rommel in the Stuttgart Tropical Disease Clinic, sick abed with malaria...