Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speaker's gavel pounded the desk. Cried the Speaker: "The time of the gentleman from New York has expired!" But thin, grim Representative Mike Edelstein, fighting mad, talked...
...unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim (1512-20) took Syria and Egypt. Suleiman the Magnifi cent (1520-66) conquered Persia and Hungary, got as far as the gates of Vienna before retiring to consolidate his conquests...
...even so, the total loss for April was grim in its implications. It was so grim, said the Admiralty in its comments on the figure, that ships might soon have to be diverted from carrying American war supplies to carrying food...
...relative strength of the two groups in a period of social change, Burnham implies in two casually grim sentences: "The position, role and function of the managers are in no way dependent upon the maintenance of capitalist property and economic relations (even if many of the managers themselves think so); they depend upon the technical nature of ... modern production." "The position, role and function of the most privileged of all groups, the finance-capitalists, are, however, entirely bound up with capitalist property and economic relations...
...Reprisalist Smith's political hopes were based on unhappy, grim phenomena. Not the least was the fact that morale in the repeatedly bombed naval ports was slipping. Portsmouth and Plymouth got theirs so badly last week that the people began fleeing town. An Associated Press correspondent reported after a tour through Plymouth: "One heard the cry, 'We can take it,' but one also heard the understandable question, 'What...