Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe it was total war. In the U. S. it was shock-the grim event had finally arrived. For Franklin Roosevelt, who had the benefit of forewarning from the U. S. diplomatic corps-he returned to Washington three days before the Nazi thrust-the shock was measurably cushioned. He had an opportunity before most other men to consider in the cold light of reason an even more momentous event: a change in the visible shape of things to come...
...York City's Times Square 15 patrolmen, three mounted police herded cars through a great crowd that spilled into the streets, attentive, grim, unusually silent, under the bulletins racing across the Times Annex...
Though forceful acting by Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne bolsters up the play, it is actually much more sincere than skillful. It is not Sherwood's art, but the audience's apprehensiveness, that gives "There Shall Be No Night" its grim interest. During periods of world upheaval, an inspired dramatist can sometimes be surpassed by a simple rewrite...
Last week fell the 25th anniversary of that grim dawn when 80,000 Allied troops started swarming ashore at the Dardanelles to storm the Turkish positions in the hills of Gallipoli. Stupid staff work and indecision spoiled that venture and cost some 9,000 casualties, but the man mostly blamed was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, then as now First Lord of the Admiralty. Turkish and Allied troops, now fraternizing in the Near East, observed the occasion last week by exchanging salutations, especially Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, chief of the Anzac Command,* and Marshal Fervi Cakmak, Chief of the Turkish...
Sweden's dynasty, like Sweden's people, was last week in a grim predicament. King Christian of Denmark, the father-in-law of Gustaf's granddaughter, is now a German puppet; and Christian's brother, Haakon of Norway, was a target for German bombs and bullets. While Norwegians were fighting for their lives and freedom, Swedes, their closest national relatives, dared not go to their defense. But this week as Nazi warplanes swarmed over Sweden King Gustaf sent a stiff protest to Berlin...