Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft battled the invader with grim and obstinate resolution. Taft workers distributed his literature outside Stassen rallies. They tracked the Minnesotan everywhere, took down his every word and stood up in his meetings to ask questions which had obviously sprung from Taft's precise legal mind...
Perilous Bend. Jews were grim about Kastel. Said one: "We have to attack it again. This is our Battle of the Atlantic." They had managed to run a convoy of 40 food trucks through to Jerusalem by another road, the first supplies in twelve days. In a new push, Haganah fighters retook Kastel. But Fawzi Bey Kawukji, commanding the Arabs in the north, sent artillery and armored cars to support the Jerusalem Arabs. By week's end, Arabs claimed that they again held the village...
...Rome last week, the supporters of democracy displayed courage. For two hours on a cloudy Sunday, 25,000 bronzed, well-fed, well-armed men paraded through Rome. There were red-plumed carabinieri on white horses, steel-helmeted army regulars riding along in maroon Dodge trucks, grim parachutists in steel-grey battle dress, over 100 tanks (including Shermans), scores of armored cars, 80 rumbling pieces of heavy artillery, and even 150 carrier pigeons, traveling in a special truck...
Nowhere on the continent of Europe is the outlook for students more grim than on the troubled Greek peninsula. A World Student Relief investigator wires from Geneva that an undeclared Balkan war, corruption in the home government, and only pitiful and halting efforts at economic recovery make the task of assistance overwhelming...
...convinced, on the evidence, that all Communists in a democracy are potential spies and traitors; but the U.S. was still doggedly determined not to treat even a known Communist as a spy or a traitor until he was caught redhanded. That frame of mind was doubtless a source of grim amusement to Communists, who are logical people...