Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...
Pundits in the entertainment business have been aware for many months that as the world's wars grew grimmer, people have grown harder to communicate with. With U.S. liquor consumption, roadhouse business and the automobile accident rate spiraling giddily, it appeared that a harassed people was bent on finding speedier escape from its troubles, did not want to see or hear anything very much-even vhen the hearing was free...
...threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...
...last week, Mr. Rich, grimmer than ever, rose as usual and demanded 60 seconds of the House's time. Members groaned. Grinning fiendishly, Mr. Rich shouted: "April Fool!" He sat down to tumultuous applause...
...immediate hope was the R. A. F. Last week Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons: "I cannot conceal from the House my own belief that the war is about to enter a grimmer phase. It will be no easy task to defeat Nazi Germany, but it can and will be done, and my confidence is primarily based on the achievements of the R. A. F. and sister services...