Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope came to householders along the Eastern Seaboard who have been shivering over grim predictions of fuelless days and heatless homes next winter. The Government—a year too late—finally gave orders for a pipeline last week...
...Nelson himself would be the last to take full credit for all this excitement-by & large, it was still another sign of the U.S.'s grim intention to win the war. Moreover, hundreds of plants (notably in the auto industry) that shied away from labor-management committees per se were using the same kind of ballyhoo and production incentives with equally good results. As all the U.S. well knows, there is nothing like good ballyhoo (see cut) to put a good basic urge to work...
Except for an occasional water-fight, spring was marked by the absence of the usual undergraduate pranks. Only one or two, such as the replacement of President Lowell's portrait with that of a "Goya girl," in Lowell House, provided contrast to the grim business-like atmosphere...
...there is an added significance in the preservation of the humane tradition. The values for which that tradition stands are the values for which we are fighting. Without them our war effort becomes a brute struggle for existence, and the prospects for the world after the war are grim indeed. And "preservation" does not imply a resurrection of the status quo. Rather it means holding on to the tools with which we can undertake the tremendous task of post-war reconstruction...
...United Nations have largely lost control of the Mediterranean, the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, a good part of the Pacific (the part where rubber came from). They have even had to permit the enemy to roam the Atlantic coastal waters of the continental U.S. They face the grim possibility that the Near East may fall to the Germans and India to the Japs-a juncture which would end any blockade for good...