Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
...summer of 1944 the French Resistance press came out from, its underground print shops with ink on its hands and blood in its eye. In Paris and the provinces, squads of grim newsmen toting Tommy guns took over the Nazi-controlled newspaper plants and ousted the collaborationists. Almost overnight, the press of the nation was reborn...
...brotherhood bosses still refused to comply, apparently determined to make it clear that they would not give in until they were forced. Groups of grim men raced between Government buildings. Newsmen cornered Grand Chief Engineer Alvanley Johnston and demanded to know whether he would call off the strike if enjoined. Snapped Johnston: "Why ask such a damn silly question after what happened to John Lewis...
...story's solution to the problem of the irresponsible individual is weakest. Joe's sin was in insulating himself from the consciousness of his acts to society until it was too late to do anything more than expiate his crimes. True, the expiation provides the framework for a grim demonstration of the way moral justice embodied in his son breaks through his isolation. But the authors true to the classic tragedy, could find no other way of solving the riddle of society, which must deal with such individuals, or that of the sinner, than...
...novice learn to play golf from a book? The pros are always the quickest to say no. They are also the first to write the books. Last week one of the best of them all, grim little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan, published one of the best books of golf dos & don'ts. Some tips from Ben Hogan's Power Golf (A. S. Barnes...