Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim reminder came from WPB. Rubber, which had almost been forgotten in the uproar, might make the gasoline prob-lem academic. At the rate people had been riding around before gas rationing began, rubber was wearing out at the rate of 3½% a month. For the sake of rubber, if not for the sake of gas itself, the whole country is likely soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world...
Into Sydney and other ports came grim human mementos of the fight already fought. The survivors came back unannounced ; Sydney did not know they were there until three battle-worn U.S. sailor-men turned up at a bar, silently downed their drinks and smashed the glasses. "You better go away," one of them told the inquisitive barkeep. "We're drinking to our shipmates that didn't come back...
...nation, sore and grim over the fall of Corregidor, dared not be so sure. Nobody knew the U.S. losses; commentators reserved comment; the public waited, they would patiently wait all this year, for further news...
...Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid...
...pacing the Middies, whose strategy forbids settling too much after the start. Thus while Curwen drops to 32, Childs stays at 35, and this higher stroking should give Navy an early advantage. On such things is unusually abyssmal on such things is unusually abysmal this year, forsces a grim struggle in the last, long quarter mile as Childs strives to stave off the closing sprint which Curwen is bound to spark. At a low stroke the Varsity is not overly impressive, but when Captain Ted Lyman's men got swinging over 36, their power and precision have thus far seemed...