Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even without levelheaded Robert Taft's say-so, there was grim certainty in the U. S. last week that more people would pay more taxes in 1941 than ever before. The nation, with a sky-reaching public debt now past $44,000,000,000, was faced with a probable $50,000,000,000 defense bill in the next five years, over & above regular annual Government appropriations of some...
...method of combating that oppression. Apart from that attempted justification, it was a plausible argument himself once again as a good New Dealer." But Hitler's declaration that Germany was capable of beating the world was something else. Every middle-aged citizen of Germany remembers the long grim war and final defeat which occurred the last time Germany took on the world...
Turn for the Better. But that grim picture has been dispelled, at any rate for the present, by the action of the people of a small island in the North Sea, nobly and valiantly aided by the young nations of the British family across the seas. First, there was the retreat from Dunkirk. Then came Mr. Winston Churchill. Then came the brutal bombing of London, but there was no flinching...
Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
...Canadian cast an envious eye across the border, he had a grim consolation, knowing that it would not be long before the costs of defense would reduce the U. S. standard of living. For the Canadians were facing one of the hard realities of life, that a people have to pay dearly for their independence whether they fight for it or maintain it without fighting...