Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haylifts. Westerners-with eleventh-hour aid from state and federal governments-began a grim and final battle with the weather. The most spectacular was "Operation Haylift"-the Air Force's attempt to feed more than a million sheep and 100,000 cattle marooned in distant and desolate corners of Nevada and Utah...
...last week, newsmen on the New York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...
False Philosophy. His face was grim and set. He spoke in a week of historic victories for Communism in Asia (see FOREIGN NEWS). He had chosen his Inauguration Day to give the U.S.-and the world-a major restatement of U.S. foreign policy. Reading with careful emphasis from his brown leather loose-leaf notebook, his breath hanging frosty in the winter air, the President made it clear that there would be no softening of the U.S. attitude toward Communist aggression...
...Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...
...higher education, too, the picture is grim. In 1946, President Truman appointed a commission of educators and public figures to investigate the college scene. The commission reported a year later, and recommended a whopping program of federal aid to colleges. Unless this were done, the commission warned, higher education would continue to bobble the vital job of supplying America with enough highly-trained and intellectually broadened citizens. The Commission claimed that about half of the population can profit by two years of college, and therefore 14 years of education should be free to all. The total enrollment in higher education...