Word: grimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest observation station on this planet-11,500 feet above sea level-and the only coronagraph in the western hemisphere are in line, according to a story in the Alumni Bulletin which remarked that "at Climax the air is clear and washed free of the dust and grime of the low-lands" and said sarcastically, "Cambridge is much the same...
...University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...
...will find in New York that] what the advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
Last week this wretched, sleazy city was stark and rude, its colors mud-brown, grime-grey and the red of rusted iron roofing on shacks where bombed-out thousands lived. The wind, as characteristic of Tokyo as of Chicago, touched the rubble heaps, whined along the empty streets, but never quite carried away the ancient stench of fish and sewage...
...with morale; not every soldier could wash and shave every day, but some who could didn't, just to look like Mauldin characters. Replied Mauldin in effect: the only Army morale his cartoons ever hurt is in high places. After 45 minutes with Old Blood & Guts, Young Gags & Grime emerged grinning, reported last week: "I came out with all my hide on. We parted good friends, but I don't think we changed each other's opinions." Mauldin G.I.s remained unwashed, unsquelched...