Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, could see targets in the brilliant moonlight-piers against the light-flooded bay, the central part of the city flanking the Pasig River. Fortunately the pilots were friendly, the targets make-believe, the blackout a mere practice. But just the same this occasion last week was grim. This was the first simulated blackout of a city under the U.S. flag which seriously fears it may soon be bombed. The city: Manila...
...courtroom was hushed. The crowd of Texans watched the prisoner in grim silence. He was a Negro, named Bob White. The charge: raping a white woman. It was the third time he had been on trial...
Behind the grim, bomb-scarred, brownstone walls of St. James's Palace the Prime Minister met with representatives of Britain's Allies.* Enlarging on a joint resolution to prosecute the war without letup, Winston Churchill made one of the most eloquent addresses of his career. Said...
...loss in Empire personnel was also grim-proportionately far greater than at Dunkirk or Greece. Here the "known loss" was 15,000 men, against 17,000 evacuated, nearly 50% (at Dunkirk losses were 12%, in Greece 25%). Winston Churchill, as a palliative to rising British anger over Crete (see p. 24), estimated that the Germans had lost 17,000 men. But the German High Command, whose claims if not admissions have usually proved unfailingly accurate, last week admitted losing only 5,893 men (1,353 killed, 2,621 missing, 1,919 wounded). Of these admitted casualties...
Although all of the documentaries are grim reminders of the tragic significance of the war for Britain, not one is without its leavening of dry humor. There is a lift to the way a Dover anti-aircraftman dismisses the daily shelling by Nazi big guns across the Channel. Says he: "Aye, we see a flash, count 60, and there...