Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reorganization Plan No. 4. They know it can be done again by reestablishing the Air Safety Board to investigate accidents, and to make recommendations as a result of its investigations, to prevent accidents, and to make investigations into situations that may be potential crashes. ..." From Pat McCarran came a grim promise: a bill to be filed in January, re-establishing...
They did not sound nearly so grim as the Battle of Verdun, when hundreds of thou sands of men were blown to bits...
Belgium was grim because the country had been looted of foodstuffs, because 50,000 workers had been deported to Germany, because there was no real leadership in the nation, with its Government in exile in London and King Leopold stead fastly refusing to become a puppet. When Jews in Antwerp were ordered to wear armbands a few weeks ago, masses of gentiles appeared on the streets with identical armbands...
...budget was grim news for Canadians, but they did not grumble. It could not be helped. Already their Government was spending nearly 50% of their national income. Already their war effort was costing nearly $80,000,000 a month (the equivalent, considering Canada's wealth, of about $1,000,000,000 a month for the U. S.). Canadians could not begrudge the money spent. Some 45,000 of their sons were serving overseas and their Empire was fighting for its life...
French pictures are noted for their delicate handling of humor, leavened in with even the most pathetic tragedy. No smiles lurk here; only lines and lines of dead or grim Canadiens. French pictures, and those of Jean Gabin in particular, are almost unique in their unaffected and moving treatment of sorrow. No sorrow lingers here. The acting is ham-ish, and the story laughably obvious...