Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under such conditions Washington's polite formula of a three-man board to mediate a strike was not enough last week to avert several funerals in San Francisco. From early May, when 12,000 unionized longshoremen struck on the Pacific Coast, a grim state of siege has prevailed in all Pacific ports north of Los Angeles...
...Grim was the entry of the troops headed by Major General David P. Barrows, onetime president of the University of California, and Colonel R. E. Mittelstaedt. Said Colonel Mittelstaedt...
...city's entire business. Moreover 3,400 striking teamsters might spread the strike warfare all through San Francisco's business district. The prospect looked grimmer and grimmer to San Franciscans and to Governor Merriam who soon might need thousands of guardsmen to keep the peace. It also looked grim to the President's special labor board which began open hearings to dig out the issues, line up public opinion...
...grim Dutch troops and state police moved into Amsterdam they got the order: "Show no quarter...
...many a French sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile run in France's sport-event-of-the-year...