Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
...York Bay. She had 464 silent passengers on board. For them there would be no more cocktails in glittering bars with wide-eyed café socialites, no lavish dinners for affable U.S. businessmen. They were Nazi and Fascist propaganda agents, consular officers and their families, bound homeward to the grim realities of the New Order...
...German advance, which previously had averaged 22 miles a day, slowed last week to eight miles a day, in the face of grim Russian resistance, bad weather and perhaps the growing difficulty of operating over the vast, unfurnished Russian countryside...
...Patterson's report sounded like a tremendous accomplishment. To a nation loath to drop its peacetime preoccupations with permanent-wave machines and shiny new automobiles for the grim business of arming for war, it was a tremendous accomplishment. But it was not enough. No one knew that better than Under Secretary Patterson. Said...
...this was grim news for France, there was one glimmer of hope in it. The more Vichy succumbs to Germany, the more tenuous becomes its hold on the man charged with holding its empire together: General Maxime Weygand. Ever since October 1940, when he quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies...