Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forestall such escapes, Commandant Manuel Barres and hand-picked members of Argentina's crack motorized "Mounties of the Pampas" worked in secret for weeks, visiting ranches, hobnobbing with strangers in cafes and on street corners. When leaders of the movement had thus been discovered, he asked his superior, grim-lipped General Manuel Calderon, Commander in Chief of the National Gendarmes for uniformed reinforcements, swooped down on the Nazi suspects...
...major military marks which Nazi bombers had to shoot at in this area. The inhabitants of these places were, of all Britons, perhaps best prepared to take it. As the late Novelist D. H. Lawrence's heroine, Lady Chatterly, discovered in the Midlands: "This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. . . . There was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious." But if people...
With only a few mechanics, timekeepers and the grim, grey mountains looking on, Mayor Jenkins coddled his thundering 2½-ton Mormon Meteor once around the course. Then in a twinkling, the wooden markers (set at soft, intervals) became a picket fence, the flat track a gigantic bowl of salt. Round & round he whirred. In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers-172.915 miles per hour." An eyeblink later, another board went up, marking a new record for 50 miles. Then, in quick succession...
Herr Funk's grim warning was only confirmation of the view taken by the New York Times's No. i foreign correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, in his book They Wanted War (TIME, July 29). Contemplating a U. S. left, if Britain is beaten, to face a new Nazi economy of "blood over gold," he observed: "Such an upheaval . . . would put America's entire foreign trade . . . under the control of Germany and her allies. . . . America would find the competition of a consolidated Europe, behind whose salesmen stood the military might of Germany...
...indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...