Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congresses, none had ever been held in lower esteem than the 77th. Many a citizen made a grim mental note to vote against his Congressman. For many a U.S. citizen it was all too easy to take out his general dissatisfaction on the 77th Congress. To many a citizen, Congress seemed a dreary collection of porcine clowns, of pompous pantaloons, always wrong or greedy or just stupid. Many a citizen remembered the marrow-chilling House draft-extension vote last August of 203-to-202, when one vote saved the nation's Army. Many a citizen remembered that Congress...
...system of compulsory athletics, even to the extent of some military drill, a grim suggestion of the University's policy of military training in the first World War, will start immediately after spring vacation for all undergraduates, according to an official announcement yesterday from Director of Athletics William J. Bingham...
...established that in building the heavy bombers-with which air power strikes-the U.S. is far & away ahead of the rest of the world. Token proofs are the Flying Fortresses now in Europe; a bigger token, the handful of Flying Fortresses in The Netherlands East Indies, which slashed with grim effectiveness at Japanese naval units, fought off Jap fighter planes, ranged far & wide through the South China Seas-on missions which cannot yet be fully described in print...
...slim, bald man with a brooding, priestlike face distinguished by a finely chiseled nose, a determined chin. But Army airmen, a friendly lot, were bowled over when they were called to Bob Lovett's office and asked to help him to find out the score of the grim game he had entered...
Furloughed to the U.S. after 20 months with the British Mediterranean Fleet, Correspondent Allen still carried grim memories of his lucky rescue, after 45 minutes in the water, from the torpedoed British Galatea (TIME, Dec. 29). He corrected first reports that he had been hospitalized afterwards in Alexandria-he had only gone to bed in a hotel. But he still suffers from severe headaches in consequence of shock and swallowing oil scum...