Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Andrei Gromyko, looking grimmer than usual in a pair of dark glasses, proposed a different plan-an immediate, unconditional cease-fire order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...were sputtering through a chain reaction of anger. Wrote London's News Chronicle: "If President Truman would take a long, long voyage far out into the sea and speak to no one, there might be some hope of reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues to fulfill its contracts to the Arabs . . . Britain and America will in effect be fighting each other by proxy...
...lights. Last January, in Camden, Ghadiali was convicted of introducing a misbranded article into interstate commerce; he was fined $8,000, the institute $12,000, and given until the next week to pay. Ghadiali appealed, brought in 112 patients who claimed they felt better. The Government countered with grimmer testimony: a son testified that his father, a diabetic, died after three weeks' treatment; the husband of a woman with tuberculosis said his wife lost 40 pounds, then died; a woman said her son died before her eyes while she was giving him the lights treatment...
About once a week, the Greek government declares all-out war on the Communist guerrillas. But last week, Greece's 88-year-old Premier, Themistocles Sophoulis, seemed grimmer than usual. He signed an emergency decree empowering the government to requisition houses and factories, conscript any man or woman, including doctors and nurses. Nightclubs were closed. Execution of some 1,500 jailed and condemned rebels got going in earnest...
...Many a Scots lass, drafted into English factories during the war, never went home-which had provoked loud protests from Scotsmen at the time. 2) Many another lass had married a Polish, Canadian or U.S. soldier stationed in Scotland. South of the border, the girls had a far grimmer time of it; England had a surplus of 166,000 marriageable women...