Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granite and sandstone U.S. Treasury Building in Washington the grim conferences went on last week, late into the evenings. At breaks in the meeting, weary men, wilted by the heat, discouraged by the bleak facts they carried in their minds, walked the corridors with troubled step. They wished they did not have to say what was on their minds, but they also hoped that everyone in the Western world would understand its importance...
...past when Britain's majestic liner Queen Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
...last week's National Union of Mine Workers' conference at Rothesay, in Scotland, Horner gave a demonstration of his tactics and his might. On the platform he sat between grim, green-eyed Manny Shinwell and buck-toothed Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board. Horner got from both of them exactly what he wanted. He asked for the closed shop, shorter hours, more social security...
Thoroughly relaxed, A.M.A.'s delegates gossiped, gamboled and, for a few days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall. Another was an appeal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for the doctors' support of a bill to remedy a serious shortage of Army doctors. The Army has only 1,100 Regulars in its Medical Corps, needs 6,000 for its present strength of some...
...bill is only a peacetime measure, and does not touch the vastly greater problem of medical mobilization for a possible World War III. On that problem, the delegates were confronted with a grim report by a special committee headed by A.M.A.'s president, Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia...