Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness was in his words. Said...
They all believe that competition is good for the soul. Competition selects that neurotic hybrid known as "a Crimeed" from the saner strains of College men, and the grim reaper of competitive toil determines his future career as a college journalist...
...other chaotic days, on January 27, 1947 to be precise, the editorial stated bluntly that the world stood "on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic," adding with grim fortitude that "the storm signals are flying." And though it is galling to do so, admitted it must be that now, a year later, Harvard is healthier than ever. The editorial decried "pointing with pride at the empty beds in Stillman," but today let us point at them with pride, and commiserate only those suffering from an overdose of benzedrine...
Like most of his literary contemporaries, Stevenson did his utmost to escape from ordinary, everyday life. But he was too little of an esthete to flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...