Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into San Francisco Bay was still a mystery, quickly took another look at the wreckage in which...
...only fifteen hundred of those eight thousand are being employed, by Pacific Mills, and Lewis says he is out to help these fifteen hundred. If he really has the interest of the workers at heart, let him regard the deserted buildings of the once great. Amoskeag Company as a grim reminder of what can happen...
...nurse to welcome her husband on his return. The nurse left Eugenio for a moment. When she returned he was gone. The nurse and the Pereyra Iraolas frantically searched the woods at the edge of the park. Then to the gate of La Sorpresa two miles away cracked a grim order from Rancher Pereyra Iraola that no one should be allowed to leave. By telephone the whole southern Argentine was then called on its first major kidnap hunt...
...book, Army Without Banners has a smoky flavor, is spudded with hunks of lyrical description, plenty of jagged bones and gristle of realism, and enough meat to go round. Author O Malley has not piled on his horrors as he might: more than once he obviously cuts a grim tale short. But not always. In the worst days of the Trouble, when the British were shooting any Irishman they caught with arms on him. O Malley's men captured three English officers. They were armed. Under standing orders from headquarters, O Malley had them taken out and shot...
...sympathizers to cease all picketing and demonstration around G. M. plants throughout Michigan. With a roar the embattled unionists flung the judge's order back in his round, bespectacled face. Sheriff Thomas Wolcott read it to the sit-downers amid contemptuous silence, departed with a grin. The grim, bearded sit-downers telegraphed to Governor Frank Murphy their determination to die before obeying it. Thousands of outside sympathizers poured into Flint, joined the strikers' militant, red-bereted Women's Emergency Brigade in marching and picketing with brandished clubs. Spoiling for (Continued on p. 21) a tight...