Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship sinkings do serve a purpose, it should be to show the nation the handicaps of sending out American ships unarmed and defenceless, at the mercy of any grim and realistic, if not "merciless" raider. A five inch gun on board a merchant ship is powerful as a defensive threat, forcing the submarines under the seas in their attacks. It gives the ship more of an even break. The sooner our ships get guns, the more chance we will have of decreasing the ghastly acceleration of lives lost...
...Here grim and gay we mean to stay...
Many a man has been killed or maimed on a sheriff's posse, and three were injured last week on the Pacific Coast-but this time the damage was done not in the grim business of hunting criminals but in the merry business of posseing...
...interventionist cause. As the country rapidly nears a definite plump on the belligerent side of the fence, the desperate importance of a final triumph becomes clearer and clearer, and gigantic productive and military efforts become a crusade. But neither the beating of war's drums nor the grim, inevitable prospect of years of blood and sacrifice should be allowed to destroy Uncle Sam's sense of proportion as to the real goal. Without a great deal more thought and action in the spirit of President Roosevelt's campaign for the first of the four freedoms in Russia; without foresight...
...durable representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps cropped up again. They are the raucous, riotous, wenching duo, Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg, who first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...