Word: dourness
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...replace Nimitz in the BUNAV went Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, 56, grim-faced, dour veteran (38 years), lately at sea with the Atlantic Fleet...
...Dour, taciturn Brigadier General Gladeon M. Barnes, of the Army's Ordnance Department, announced that a civilian plant was being tooled up for production of the new piece. The sky-prodder is a 4.7-in. caliber cannon that will hurl shells more than 40,000 feet up-more than seven and a half miles. The range is neither theoretical nor guesswork. An adaptation of an earlier gun, the 4.7 has already been thoroughly tested...
...superphotographic style that has made him one of the most original figures in U.S. art. Because his portraits looked as though their subjects had been removed from newly opened graves, nobody gave him commissions. So Painter Albright painted himself. One of his self-portraits, an imaginative picture of a dour, wrinkled man sitting by a table with a still-life arrangement on it, was bought by Chicago's Adman Earle Ludgin, most enthusiastic individual Albright collector...
...treason, added: "Surely common sense dictates that we can't allow dictator-minded individuals ... to stifle the very breath of our vital industries. ... I feel that now-not next year . . . but now. we should prepare to deal drastically with such men as John Lewis." Virginia's tall, dour-faced Howard Worth Smith summoned some 30 fellow Democrats to his office. They arrived with stealth, dripping with fury, to debate how they might push through Congress one of the many anti-strike bills already in the Congressional hopper...
...lank, dour fellow, with a face like a withered apricot, a sandy-grey pompadour, and a thundering disdain for anything Republican, Representative Ford is one of the shortest-tempered men in the House. He has been a 1,000% New Dealer ever since he came to Congress in 1933, after ten years of editing the literary page of the anti-New Deal Los Angeles Times...