Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further west in the obvious expectation that it would be foolish to try to hold Salonika. Yet the British themselves once called the town, not carelessly, "the gateway of two continents." Possession of the port gave the Nazis their first outlet on the Mediterranean. They could use it to grim effect as a base for planes and submarines...
...tells his long, slim chauffeur Kempka to put away his long, slim, black Mercédès-Benz touring car, in which he loves to ride by the day across the Fatherland. In its place appears the grim six-wheeled, field-grey car of war, also a Mercédès-Benz...
...invaded country, repeated again its insistence on the rights of small nations, and then, when the Nazi war machine had rolled over another one, recognized the Government in exile. So it was with Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg; so it threatened to be for many more. It was a grim, unvaried procession, that at its best made U. S. policy seem well-meaning, unimaginative, unreal...
Then she was gone." &"Up Periscope!"; is the grim account by an unnamed officer of the submarine Sturgeon of the sinking of a crowded Nazi troop transport. Front-Line Girl is the story of Sonia Straw, one of the first three women to receive the George Medal for civilian gallantry. "Although she had seen nothing more bloody than a cut finger in her 19 years" Sonia treated bomb victims for everything from shrapnel wounds to shell shock. Most blood-tingling are the restrained accounts of fights and bombings by British airmen whose anonymity the R. A. F. guards unless they...
...soon as that column got word that British Somaliland was British again, it captured Giggiga, a nondescript one-square town of tin-and straw-roofed houses. From there the troops pushed on for Harar. Soon they reached trouble. Between Giggiga and Harar lies some grim hill country. There the motor road turns and digs through narrow denies, and the hills, with their boulders and scrub, afford plenty of cover for defenders. It is the sort of country where a handful ought to be able to hold off an army...