Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This appears to be a grim picture, but since the first regular meet, the Knights of Columbus affair in the Boston Garden, does not come until January, the situation may not be as bad as it looks as first glance. Also, the Tufts meet, set for Briggs Cage on Saturday afternoon is informal and non-scoring, and will not be part of the permanent record of this track team...
Some tanks throw or break their tracks, and lie still like wounded animals. New weapons appear-ugly little German 20-mm. ultra high-velocity anti-tank guns, motorized 75s, an occasional Hurricane blazing away with four cannon, Stukas in their grim game of selective diving...
...weather which required this camouflage was steadily worsening. According to almanac reckoning, winter officially began in the Moscow area last week. Until mid-April the ground will now be under a blanket of snow, the earth helpfully hard. To Marshal von Bock's men winter will be grim, but not deadly. The average temperature for January, the coldest month...
...suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph of him alive, as approved by the censor, showed a bald, grim, tight-lipped man looking considerably older than his 45 years...
...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...