Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...
...seven U.S. soldier-executioners it was a grim assignment. First they went to a makeshift gallows, built in an elevator shaft, and practiced with a sandbag dummy. Then, shortly after midnight one night, they carried out the verdict...
...counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life is a grim, bitter joke and had best be laughed at. Sample Palma ironies...
...that. But factual descriptions of the current repressions and restrictions in such places as Yugoslavia may be literally accurate and yet be without any real perception of the why & wherefore. There is a case for the Partisans of this world, in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, even though they are grim, smelly folk who eat with their knives. All the revolutionaries I know of in history and in Europe today fit this uncouth pattern-except the Fascists. And certainly Europe is having a revolution...
...hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...