Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grim Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War, sat in the public dining room of a hotel at Torreon, Mexico, last week, methodically chewing. Generals and businessmen leaned over the table, talking excitedly. General Calles, scowling, continued...
Solemnly at last the Parliament of the Union of South Africa voted on General Hertzog's bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant smile twisted the lips of General Smuts. He had won this preliminary skirmish, but the real dogfight will be the General Election, now scheduled for next June...
...Senator Vare was in Florida, still recuperating from the paralytic stroke which he suffered last summer and which, according to his physicians, made it impossible for him to appear and defend himself, the committee in its report merely recommended his final rejection but presented no ouster resolution. To the grim-jawed, vindictive Reed was left the honor and the glory of demanding, one last time, the Senator-Suspect's rejection...
...seeking to express our grief over brave comrades fallen by our side in battle. . . . This tragic toll exacted by the Grim Reaper may awaken the American people to a new understanding. . . . We loved these fallen comrades of ours. . . . Vaile, called from the lofty outlook of his beloved mountains to the infinite horizons of eternity. . . . King, efficient attorney of Galesburg. . . . Oldfield, a man four square. . . . Butler, elder statesman, delicate whimsical humor. . . . Frothingham, gentleman of the old school...
Dusk is coming on apace. The ball is on the 6-yard line. Victory for the powerful Heliotrope eleven is five minutes away. The almost equally powerful Chocolate team is grim, desperate...