Word: grimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing from the U.S. book is anything resembling the grim phrases included by the ever-efficient Germans in the language guides prepared for their troops during the overrunning of Europe. Example from the German handbook prepared for a possible invasion of England: "Tell the truth or you will be killed...
...nearly four years neutrality has served the Turks and served the Allies. Now that it threatens to block the way for Allied armies, a choice must be made again. When the choice is made, Sükrü Saracoglu will probably present it to the world. Standing between grim, retiring President Ismet Inönü, Turkey's unquestioned leader, and brilliant, chronically ill Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Saracoglu is their front to other nations' statesmen...
...grim and war is horrible. It has always been the military man himself who has been the first to point this out, wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest...
...pocket battle ship and a cruiser. She lost them. Early the next morning she sighted another huge enemy ship - beyond her reach. For nine days more the Clyde searched and found empty sea. She had now been at sea for three weeks. The 50 men of her crew were grim, bitter, tense. They could not smoke, waited in fixed dullness when the Clyde was submerged, chewed sweets. On the morning of June 20, the seas were running high. Mountain waves made it impossible to see at periscope depth. As the day wore on, a 30-mile-an-hour wind whipped...
...Attu the fighting was over except for the last cleanup, and U.S. fighting men were getting soldiers' burial. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod (one of nine correspondents officially commended for their behavior under fire), wrote the following description of the grim epilogue to one of the hardest battles U.S. soldiers ever fought...