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Word: grimness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German reports, even if exaggerated, indicated a continued high rate of sinkings, and frank British statements that the Battle of the Atlantic looked "pretty grim" suggested that it was not immediately and strikingly effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patrols and Convoys | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. About all they took with them was the grim satisfaction that Adolf Hitler will have a tough time making that hetero geneous land make sense. They knew because they had tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Problem in Division | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, who often gives himself over to exultation but seldom to optimism, saw this grim week for what it was: one of Britain's last chances to roll the dice. But the quality which makes Britain's Prime Minister a hardy, resilient gambler, which made him take the chance in Greece after having taken the chance in Norway, was his ability to diagnose far ahead of time the enemy's next moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Toward the Sad Extremity | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Hungary's Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Grabs and Runs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...long as he is merely critical of the old, he rips along as delightfully as in Chapter I. But the planning itself begins dubiously and ends with the grim words, "a diversity about fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaky Ark | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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