Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd slowly grew. There were a few people, then more, then a throng, looking intently west across the harbor, beyond Point Loma, out to the Pacific where the enemy was. There was no visible excitement, no hysteria, and no release in words for the emotions behind the grim, determined faces...
Eventually the Senator paused and let his audience in on the war news. Said he: "I can't somehow believe this. . . There's been many funny things before. . . ." Grim-lipped, red-faced, sweating, he left the hall, muttering that he "must try" to get to Washington...
...curtain of censorship settled down. The Fleet units which were fit for action put to sea. The White House said that several Jap airplanes and submarines were downed, but what happened in the next grim stage of the deadly serious battle was hidden for the time being by the curtain...
When Japan attacked the U.S. this week, suddenly and without warning, the Tribune story looked very dead indeed. Dead, too, was the specter of war which Colonel McCormick had waved before the Midwest for the last two years, laid by a menace far more grim and real...
...British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...