Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next night, and the next, the sirens sounded for light, hit-& -run raids. On the fifth night the heavy bombers came once more in force, planted new fires beside the old. Berliners were wearier, dirtier, grimmer as they worked to clear up the damage. Men were unshaven for lack of water. Food stores were closing down...
...prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...
...occupation of North Africa has complicated the German-Japanese task. But there still are Portuguese and Spanish ports through which Tojo's boast could become grimmer truth...
From a loudspeaker in Pahlavi Square came the strains of a conga. Then the mob heard grimmer music as the firing started. Soldiers opened up with rifles and pistols; tanks lumbered into position and began firing. The Army was called out, stood by with loaded guns...
...grim fact is that war-needed food is going to waste. But even grimmer are two other facts: 1) the Administration, after wringing its hands for ten years over problems of migrants who, like waves of misery, used to follow the crops, has awakened too late to the fact that the Joads are immobilized by lack of tires or are abandoning their calling for lush war jobs; 2) next year will be even worse. This week the Government haltingly moved to save what could be saved. It rounded up 183 migrants in the Virginias, put them on buses and trains...