Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert and because preparation of mechanized forces for a big offensive cannot be concealed." Two mornings later Sir Archibald Wavell called twelve crack war correspondents into his Cairo office and calmly announced: "Gentlemen, this morning at dawn our troops opened attack against Italian positions at Sidi Barrani." Then his grim mouth relaxed into a smile as he added: "It would be interesting to know whether any of you had any idea the attack started?" Most of these veteran journalists had been out in the desert for weeks, watching every maneuver - but not one answered. History knows how surprised the Italians...
...Manhattan last week nearly 1,000 members and guests of the American Orthopsychiatric Association gathered to discuss the grim problems of childhood. "Orthopsychiatry," the scientific study of abnormal behavior, concentrates largely on children. Since it is impossible to explain such polysyllabic notions as therapy or its need to moppets, and since they themselves have difficulty communicating with grownups, the orthopsychiatrist must be wily, has to resort to ruses and symbols, not only to communicate with children but to gain their confidence...
Chances for a Crimson victory in the coming Yale match look pretty grim, especially since Yale has one of the best Freshman Squash squads of Bulldog history, the team being composed largely of players from Exeter which last year had the best prep school rating in the East. The Crimson team, for the Yale match, will doubtless have Grey and Bane for number one and two men, respectively, while McDonald, Stevens and Gorenstein will battle it out for the remaining three positions with Marshall Hughes and Nevill Cramer, two men who are coming up fast from the second team...
Short, tight-mouthed, efficient as a gyrocompass and untiring as the Mediterranean sun, Sir Andrew spent most of his years on the way up aboard destroyers, mostly in the Mediterranean. He learned some unhappy lessons off Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He is known as a grim disciplinarian and a bear for work. He has such a loud voice for commands that his underlings say that inter-ship signals in battle are just a waste of effort; and he is such an expert navigator that his crews say he could cut an egg in half with...
Your article in Medicine [Jan. 20] regarding the establishment of Meharry Medical College of Nashville and the six great men, five Meharry brothers and old Dr. Hubbard, is one of the most moving human tales I've ever read. In the midst of the grim necessity of being about to set the world right by force of arms comes this inspiring example of warmhearted, honest and courageous men-the Meharrys...