Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliverance at Hand. There were no fireworks in Warsaw. That grim, ruined capital rocked with the crash of bombs from Red planes on the rail stations and yards. The ragged, starved, decimated people of Warsaw could also hear the approaching thunder of Russian artillery...
...when these gutter-dwellers began to boo, with grim efficiency other Frenchmen, women & children singled out the hooters, drove them with surreptitious cuffs and curses from the Avenue. The prisoners grinned and marched on, chins up. Lest the parade arouse a real demonstration, the Germans sneaked the prisoners into a side street...
...fine musical feature from Tokyo is the playing of Yoichi Hiraoka, famed Japanese xylophonist, who used to perform in U.S. concert halls and over a U.S. network. Says Grim : "He still plays classical music superbly, and without any commercials about his boss from Japan...
...most dangerous corn I've ever listened to" emanates from Mrs. Henry Topping (TIME, April 10), who speaks over Radio Hsinking. Apparently an elderly U.S. widow, she tells of visits to Americans in Japanese prison camps, of their belief that there is no sense fighting the "delightful" Japanese. Grim: "She sounds like somebody making fun of your mother, and you resent...
...Grim's conclusion: "Radio here is a link with home, but it's also an unwanted link with our enemy. . . . But you folks in the States don't have to worry about us. ... Orphan Annie from Tokyo, Jacques Chateau from Saigon, and Mrs. Henry Topping from Hsinking are just foolish voices crying in the wilderness...