Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These things the stolid, seawise commander of the Allied fleets in the Indies weighed at his headquarters in Java. When events go badly for Vice Admiral Helfrich, he does not rant or snarl or gloom. He goes grim. This week he was very grim...
...stories the rescued men had to tell, of grim courage and almost intolerable hardships, were not pretty. Neither was the fact that the W. L. Steed was the 16th merchant ship (including nine oil tankers) sunk off the U.S. east coast since the U.S. went...
...made professor of art at Iowa State University. Working slowly and painstakingly (he averaged only three or four paintings a year), Grant Wood followed up his first success with a whole series of similarly lucid, polished and quaintly literal canvases. Studying the grim, stalwart Iowa farmers and their neatly fenced fields, Grant Wood got what he called the "decorative quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail...
...grounds of New Rochelle High School the totally wrecked jalopy was placed as a grim warning to the city's youth. And shocked parents and school officials learned that New Rochelle bars were an after-school hangout; that a survey showed 94% of high-school youngsters questioned drove or expected soon to drive cars; 28% of those who drove had no licenses; 57% had been in automobile accidents; "wrinkle fender" (i.e., automobile tag) was a popular game...
Less typewriter clatter in the U.S., more small-arms clatter on all fronts was a WPB demand last week. Typewriter men, called to Washington to view a table full of knocked-down rifles, revolvers, and other arms, nodded a grim okay. Some were already making 40-mm. projectiles, primers, fire-control equipment. Now they will make more...