Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are amusing mementos like the sign in Egyptian French and English that John Phillips brought home Cairo: "Guests of the hotel as well s officers of His Majesty's Forces are requested to refrain from abusing the privilege of the lifts" -and souvenirs that are pretty grim, like the fragments of a buzz-bomb that landed almost on the doorstep of the chief of the MARCH OF TIME's London office...
...been the result of conditions that have had a similar effect on all of us, such as the long depression, which was a nice, upholstered euphemism for panic, our politics, the Roosevelt experiments in gentle revolution and, finally, the war, and the concurrent decline in sports and other grim frivolities on which we used to expend our passions. In other words, aren't we all and, so, why pick...
...deputy mobilizer, Clay got many a civilian back up. His grim insistence on war priority, his sometimes arbitrary ways of getting it, gave some civilian officials, and some of his Army colleagues, a feeling that he had forgotten that the U.S., even in war, is a democracy. His critics even credited him, rather than Byrnes, with the ineffective curfew (he denied responsibility for the curfew, but insisted that it was right "in principle...
With the grinding strain of the war years suddenly lifted, top generals itched for a little relaxation. London street crowds shoved and craned in excitement last week, as once-grim brass hats appeared in theaters and night clubs...
...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...