Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope. Not "entertainment," but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War, made in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...
...clock chapel meeting previous to the granting of an honorary LL.B. degree, he underscored the "extreme gravity of the threat to Western civilization inherent in the atomic bomb." He asked Americans to recognize the nature of the grim problem facing them without incurring "hysterical reactions by dwelling exclusively on the devastating effects of atomic...
Amid these grim prospects, Soviet newspapers last week carried a brief item that, to Soviet readers, made the Amerikanskis look crazy as ever: the U.S. Government authorized farmers to destroy 20,000,000 bushels of low-grade potatoes, which Uncle Sam had paid for; the potatoes were deteriorating too fast to be collected, sold, or shipped to foreign folk...
...composing room of the strikebound Philadelphia Record stalked a squad of grim-faced A.F.L. printers. They marched across the street to Rosen's saloon, a hangout for Record workers. In the bar, they walked up to a group of strikers, tossed them the proofs of a statement that was running on Page One. Said one bitter printer: "Well, you guys have finally managed to close the paper...
...following usages are a must for anyone handling the Elizabeth Short case. . . . What are the police? Baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced, tightlipped. What is the victim? Beautiful, dark-haired, pretty. . . . What sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...