Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a couple of spent billions was a shocker. One of the fixtures each January had been the annual calculations of how much more the President had spent during the New Deal than most of the other Presidents put together. Now the budget had gone far beyond even a grim joke...
...budget's 1,172 pages, its 5 lb. 1 oz. of weight, there was no real relief for the oppressed, bursting mind of the U.S. taxpayer, now strained many times beyond what would have been ultima Thule for the Founding Fathers. But there were a few grim economies, not figured on by Franklin Roosevelt and the Budget Bureau: the U.S. may very soon be relieved of the present expenditure of $161,425 for expenses of the High Commissioner to the Philippines. And there will be no immediate need of the $39,450 appropriated for the care of lepers...
...with fresh withdrawal, closed with fresh defeat. In the five weeks since war's outbreak, the Japanese had driven 200 miles south. Last week was the worst. It opened with the British hanging on below the tin center, Ipoh. It closed with the British 100 miles south in grim retreat below the Federated Malay States' capital and rubber center, Kuala Lumpur...
Four times last week, a grim-faced, middleaged, Atlanta-born woman cursed the U.S. for entering World War II. She does it four times each week...
This was the brackish taste of defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox. To the grim, battle-weary soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur, backed up into the mountainous fastnesses of the Bataan peninsula, northwest of abandoned Manila, or desperately fending off Japanese attacks on the great harbor fortress of Corregidor, this...