Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed. When the Administration said: No-more-Business-as-Usual; when the President pledged the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" he took it all literally. Then he watched the dinosaur of a defense program falter, swamp itself, stumble from delay to delay, without plan understanding or grim intent. He listened carefully to the defense chiefs delivering excellently-phrased appeals to the U.S. to arouse, make sacrifices, speed up. This looked very good in the rotogravures, but Mr. Ickes then watched the same orators on their return to Washington, saw them wasting month after precious month...
...admitted that U.S. war-material production was not yet enough. He pounded heavily at the sacrifices ahead: "The defense of America's freedom must take precedence over every private aim and over every private interest. We are engaged on a grim and perilous task. Forces of insane violence have been let loose by Hitler upon this earth. We must do our full part in conquering them...
...Steady, grim and forbidding in a wind-chopped sea, the new 35,000-ton U.S.S. North Carolina last week took a cruel final test such as no man-of-war had ever met before: two and three-quarter tons of powder exploded aboard her, flinging twelve tons of shells miles across the water...
...also turned over to the Nazis all enemies of the New Order they wanted. This was done with a grim parody of legality. The Germans gave the names they wanted to Vichy's Paris Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention...
Last week, to the great, grim tragedy of France was added the Nazi Terror. With superb irony, its setting was Paris' shoddy, working-class XIe Arrondissement (eleventh ward), once the cradle, now the abattoir of French Republicanism. France was stirring against the Germans and the Germans had no intention of letting the stir progress to an upheaval...