Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight...
Then Wu was jerked to his feet, stripped of his grey jacket. His arms were bound from behind with thin cord. He was led to a table for his last meal; his grim-jawed captors fed him a bowlful of noodles and poured a swig of hot rice wine through his lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai...
...fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
There were no cheers in Berlin last week. There were not even many smiles. During the ten months of grim siege, Berliners' hopes had been mocked too often by false rumors. Berliners would believe the news of the blockade's end when they saw trains and trucks rolling into Berlin again from the West...
...paper the undefeated freshman track team's chances against Dartmouth this Saturday look grim. The Indians recently trounced Exeter by 43 points, while the freshmen had to come from behind in the final event of the afternoon last Saturday to eke out an eight point win over the prepschoolers...