Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather than cynical. We see the giant Olympia Studio, where no man is happy, and the road to success is to keep one's month tightly shut and do no work. But Bemelmans makes no judgements; instead he tells the story of the production of a ridiculous picture with grim amusement...
...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
Confronted with "the admittedly grim prospects of the present," President Conant recognizes that men with "solid faith... founded on religious beliefs" are best able to maintain composure and integrity...
...Stafford Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to the British people. It was a grim score...
...grim food year" was forecast by Herbert Hoover last night in a speech given in New York. His report stated that the world food situation "has become even more distressing" than in the past years...