Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...report followed another. . . . In the south the Russians were in our rear; and in the center the Russians were in our rear; and in the north the Russians were in our rear. Guerrillas blew up our railways and ambushed our supplies. Our troops nearly froze to death in the grim cold...
...Grim, fire-eating Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, perhaps the leading naval source of Japan's present policies...
...that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone. And more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts, engines, even big two-and-a-half-ton machine tools. All this will be done...
...rubber situation is getting really grim...