Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday. Usually an excuse for demonstrations against Yankee imperialism, the day passed without serious incident this year. Workers paraded in the great square outside the National Palace, while inscrutable President Manuel Avila Camacho stood on the balcony with a guard of honor, waving his hand, smiling with the slightly grim air of a man who wanted no more nonsense...
Three nights of grim raids, mostly on British ports, was the Luftwaffe answer. Those who took great hope from the R. A. F.'s night bag-in the three worst nights the British claimed 32 of the enemy -were taking premature hope. U. S. newspapers began talking of secret weapons, new detectors, night magic. The British were working on all these things; the Air Ministry had been swamped with suggestions, one of which was that pilots should carry cats, which can see in the dark, and fire wherever the animals might stare into the blackness. But there was little...
...captivating boyishness. The book is perhaps above all impressive as a demonstration that an almost moronic cheerfulness is not necessarily the foe of intelligence and sincerity, of which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes his whole 859-page canvas as shamelessly ingratiating as a barroom nude...
...little family revels in the "peculiar phrasing" used in TIME. The "random" words appearing under the photographs are good for many smiles amid what might be an overserious contemplation of today's grim events...
...allowed himself in his brief official career. Said he of the Stock Exchange members: "I would be naive if . . .I told you that I thought I had had the loyal support that I think I am entitled to from all branches of the membership." (His audience sat in grim, chill silence.) Said he of SEC and its staff: "[They are] to a degree men of good will, but they are men utterly ignorant of the basic conception of markets." (SEC cracked back next day with the fact that its staff was drawn chiefly from brokerage houses and brokers...