Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...district attorney, a tall, grim-faced man, spoke for 60 minutes. He promised to prove that in 1945 the eleven Reds had laid their plans for violence. They had started classes in revolutionary technique, and the classes were still being run. Charged McGohey: "The Russian Revolution is studied in detail as a blueprint," and according to that blueprint it took only 50,000 trained revolutionaries to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia. "At the proper time," he said, the U.S. students of revolt are taught that "the party will lead the proletariat in revolution...
Detective Story (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...
Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, spoke briefly and served as moderator throughout the program. He painted a less grim picture of the teaching profession than did Drake...
Serrano paled, stuttered: "What's the use of censorship in Spain? How did that book get here?" "In this book," the grim inquisitor continued, "the writer says you made some very rude comments about a friend of ours . . ." Serrano, recovering poise, interrupted: ". . . and of mine." "Our friend, Sancho Davila," said the visitor, "has sent us to see that you either retract and apologize or else. We give you exactly 24 hours to make your decision...