Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most graphic irony of Moscow's failure was epitomized in the picture of the week-a gift from grim Foreign Minister Molotov to dogged Secretary of State Marshall. The painting, by Russian Landscape Painter V. N. Baksheev, 85, titled Toward Evening, showed a peaceful wooded scene whose tranquility was untroubled by a single human figure...
JERUSALEM, May 4--Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its centuries-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Holy Land in many weeks...
...expert treatment to maintain a high level of interest without sporadic injections of high-octane melodrama. "The Overlanders" reaches the correct balance between fact and fiction, resulting in a refreshing absence of gun play or fiendish attacks by woolly-headed natives. By careful pruning, the producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh, wearing aspects. A long push to a dried-up water hole comes over as a very real tragedy and the countless flies sticking to the riders' backs are the kind that bite, not just shavings from a Hershey...
...British, ordinarily sticklers for procedure even in executions, had gone about this grim business in a secretive and notably un-British way. The executions underscored the evident ascendancy of the Army in making Palestine policy. General G. H. A. Macmillan, backed up strongly by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, had pressed for the executions as necessary to the prestige of British authority. Jewish terrorism played into the hands of the Army's "tough" policy, helped it overcome the more moderate line of Palestine's kindly Governor Sir Alan Cunningham...
...Usually grim Union surroundings will undergo a transformation Friday evening when six models, a band unit, and an emcee will choose at random 60 Jubilee ticket holders who will vie with each other for a prize dance with the models at the May 10 Union formal...