Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the wreckage of his plane lay one of Douglas MacArthur's finest officers, one of the U.S. press's crack war correspondents. Slim, hard-flying Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George was taken to a hospital where he died soon afterward. His comrade in the grim battle for Luzon and the last-ditch fight on Bataan, Correspondent Melville Jacoby of TIME & LIFE (see p. 55), was killed instantly...
Fancy Story. General Giraud was imprisoned with many other high French officers in Saxony's grim, moated Königstein Fortress on a mountainside 750 feet above the Elbe. There, it was said last week, he managed to obtain German maps, timetables. From gift boxes he assembled a suit of civilian clothes.* As to the actual escape, stories differed. One version said that for months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed...
When tall, rasping, grim Robert F. Rich, who needs only a plug hat to look like the cartoons of Mr. Prohibition, departs, the House will no longer hear his oft-repeated demand: "Where are we going to get the money?" For years his wrathful voice, like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, has trumped a falsetto doom. Rich thinks the New Deal communist to the core, believes Roosevelt led the U.S. into...
...mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
...much-dreaded labs are not so grim as advertised. Concentrators say that they make some of their best friends in Mallinckrodt. The secret of doing well in the labs is to allot time so that while one experiment is heating, another is underway. If the experiments aren't thought out carefully so that long gaps of time are utilized, labs can be fatal...