Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim day dawned bright and balmy. When it had sunk into the gentle arms of night, there had been no riots, no suicides, no crackups. Taxpayers had thronged U.S. banks, but not to borrow; they had wanted tax experts and free notary services...
...twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...
With Captain Don Forte the only remaining player who started the final contest last fall, Coach Dick Harlow faces the grim task of building an entirely now team. He has only 11 lettermen returning since the armed services and graduate schools will take the other...
Faced with the grim reality that most of its graduating class will see action in the war at sea within four months, the University's ROTC Unit held its first wartime Visitor's Day Review at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Memorial Hall before a distinguished group of Naval and civilian guests...
Plans for the escape were made on a Thursday: the grim little group of officers had agreed that Singapore could not hold. On the Sunday of Singapore's collapse, an aide-de-camp swam out to a Chinese sampan and sculled it back to shore. Aboard went the officers, headed by Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, Commander of the Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya. After nightfall the sampan slipped out of the harbor...