Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this grave face is written the sorrow of an empire but also the grim determination and courage to fight through to final victory...
...Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...
Separated from The Netherlands by the breadth of Europe, by an even broader gulf of culture and blood. Bulgaria was last week forced to face a grim and startling fact: in the strategy of World War II, Bulgaria is The Netherlands...
...meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent reasons for this [reducing the meat ration twice in a single week], among them the diversion of shipping to Libya. Would you rather have a little less meat . . . would you rather have Bardia...
...literary reviews which flourished like tropical flowers in a rainy summer after World War I, few have survived to greet the grim winter of World War II. The Dial went down in 1929; American Mercury became a minor political forum. Scribner's died and was reborn in another form. Two survivors, Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, survive like old-fashioned perennials. But last week in Manhattan a new one was born...