Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the grim reality of World War overshadowing all, there was no time during the vacation for Christmas cheer among the forces of William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...
Gauleiter Arrives. With grim significance, German sources intimated that Rumania was unable to govern herself, that the time was at hand for the Nazis to assume complete military and political control...
...President in this hour of urgency had two ends in view. One was speed to meet a grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
...businessman never loved dollars as metal or paper, in the grim, sensual way in which Frenchmen loved francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented something else: power, as some called it; freedom, as others called it. Power, freedom and money were an indivisible atom. Therefore, dollars mattered...
...innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...