Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toni Sender's grim bill of particulars stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
...Last week for the first time since the early days of the war, the U.S. had its first real unemployment problems; some 3,000,000 people were out of work. So far it was not an alarming figure. Unemployment was still more a small reminder of grim times of the past than an indication of hard times just around the corner...
What made some people unhappy about his new show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...
...alone live, their slaughterer grim...