Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this meant that aid to China was at last out of the pigeonhole, it seemed too little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
...conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on. It is not, to be sure, that the passion for rank and honors, which is only careerism, possess him, but it is beyond doubt the hope of playing a great role in great events...
...would say little, except that he had worn an overcoat and shoes bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist-dominated Czech Cabinet meekly handed three of them over to the Polish secret police. Of the four Polish refugees still held by the Czechs, one was Baginski, the last...
...impressive token of the awakening. An unusually heavy vote in elections to municipal councils throughout England and Wales showed that the Conservatives had made a net gain of 621 council seats. Labor suffered a net loss of 652 seats. Labor's loss in industrial areas was particularly notable. Grim and grimy Birmingham, which the Chamberlain family had accustomed to Tory rule, put 65 Tories in its council of 136. Manchester, Reading and Rugby went Conservative. It was the first major political shift in Britain in more than two years...
...jailed because of his politics, not his art. Along with about a thousand other schoolboys, Siqueiros made his way northward in 1913 to join General Obregón's revolutionary forces in Sonora. The children were organized into a grim "Mama's Brigade" and grew up during six years of bloody campaigning. Siqueiros was wounded, and promoted to the rank of captain. When the war was over, and his side victorious, he was sent to Paris as Mexican military attach...