Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeful, it was good fun. It had not always been. He went into the Navy at 17-two years ago -just to get away from the tired smallness of his father's farm on the outskirts of Omaha. But the Great Lakes Naval Training Station had been grim: the inoculations made him sick, being away from home...
Joseph Stalin shuffled his High Command last week. By doing so, he admitted that Russia had suffered grim defeat. By the way he did it, he served notice that his country was by no means finished...
Target for Tonight (Crown Film Unit; Warner) could never have been made in Hollywood. It is too real. It had to be made exactly where it was: on the flying fields of England, over the grim, green, greasy waters of the Channel; high in the Flak-lit night over Germany...
...CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). A girl dies at an English house party that includes a trollop, a squire, an American wife, a rolling stone, a fribble, a quack. Detective Nigel Strangeways is baffled right up to the tantalizing conclusion. Grim and pathological, but a grand...
...Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...