Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim and determined business, but when nations which believe in war and armed force as the supreme attributes of national life, brutally attempt to destroy or enslave nations which reject that belief, the latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
Lately reports on morale have been less enthusiastic. In grim, off-the-record speeches, British correspondents have warned Americans that it's all very well to cheer undoubted British heroism, but that the British can't be expected to take it forever...
...Wake Up, Sluggards," headlined the Express. Observers began to suspect that under their grim, gritty exteriors, Britain's war leaders-no masochists such as the Schwarze Korps described-were beginning to look anxiously and beseechingly toward the U. S. There, airplane production was still small. (This winter probably less than 400 U. S. planes a month can be built for Britain, which wants thousands.) Thence, not even 25 old Flying Fortresses were yet forthcoming. In Boston, Mass., Sir Walter Thomas Layton of the Ministry of Supply spoke an appeal that was clearly a warning. Said...
Never before had a President of the United States been asked such a question. But never had a President run for a third consecutive term. Mr. Roosevelt, who ordinarily thrives on broken precedents, looked grim. The question, said he, was very interesting-it had everything in it except the kitchen stove. Who, he wondered, had thought up the question? Said Newsman Browne: "I did, Mr. President." It was, said Mr. Roosevelt, a very interesting question-very deftly worded. "Is there an answer?" asked Newsman Browne. The President only said again: it was a very interesting question, very deftly worded. Reporter...
...Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London...