Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publicity releases have it that the flippant, bantering, light-hearted tone of the film, aside from the air-battle scenes, is the result of suggestions from the British Air Ministry that the grim side of England's struggle be played down. Some movie fans might object that amid the highly significant events which the picture portrays, the success or failure of Tyrone Power's blackout pursuit and courtship of Betty Grable doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to anybody. Such a criticism is not without its point; this bomb-ridden little romance does trot merrily along through...
...Keys, paper clips, everything small and bothersome came out of his watch pocket--but no dimes. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a dollar, then had to wait in line for the cashier. Just as they got through the turnstile, the subway's doors shut with a grim thud and it nosed down into the dark underground passage. They got the next one all right, but it was so filled that Vag couldn't get her a seat till after Charles Street. Then, when the eight minutes were up and the car jolted to a stop at Park...
...there was a difference. The annual day-long parade had more zip, more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
...diminutive Cantonese General Hsueh Yo, commander in chief of the Ninth War Area and Governor of Hunan, the situation looked grim. The Japanese had crushing superiority in planes, artillery and mechanized equipment; they might have up to 100,000 men. The valley of the Hsiang River gave them a natural avenue of approach to his capital. A few crosswise streams and low hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government...
Before President Vargas and War Minister Dutra, in apparent harmony, paraded Brazilian soldiers, 20,000 strong, Argentine naval cadets and Paraguayan military cadets. Beside the President and his War Minister stood Argentina's War Minister Juan N. Tonazzi, grim-faced by nature and not by virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned...