Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, this grim, educational fare has a definite news value for the foreign correspondent. From a careful, complete daily reading of it he can: 1) discover what the latest party thinking is on certain subjects and thus be guided in the application of that thinking to Russia's internal and international problems; 2) find out what some of Russia's top figures have been doing - from accounts of special decorations they have received, plus prior knowledge of their activities; 3) get some idea of the state of the Russian economy by noting where various plans have succeeded...
...college years ago, had grown to manhood while they fought a war. Many of them were married. They had been crammed in crowded Quonset huts, auto trailers and jerry-built houses. Government allowances had scarcely covered the expenses of their growing families. For many, college had been a somewhat grim experience which they would long remember, but not with nostalgia...
Unlike the current crop of U.S. pros, who vary from businesslike to grim, Locke whistled while he walked. He had time for such small amenities as replacing divots, and applauding when an opponent sank a long putt. When his own steady putter went haywire last week on the 17th green of the $15,000 tourney at Fort Worth, he grinned and scolded himself: "Very shaky, very shaky playing indeed...
...pressures most powerfully at work are those of grim necessity: 1) U.S. prices have already risen precipitously since the loan was negotiated a year ago; 2) Britain has to buy more food than she expected from the dollar countries-the U.S., Canada, Argentina-because crop recovery in the soft-money countries has been slower than expected, 3) frosts, snow and floods have heavily cut Britain's home food supply (a quarter of all the sheep and lambs in the country died this winter...
Then Paul returns to the front. The rest of the book is the plain, grim tragedy of men hopelessly trapped-thanks largely to the fact that the U.S. Army didn't bother to parachute them their long-promised heavy machine guns. TIME-LIFE Correspondent Wertenbaker's handling of these and other military passages indicates that experience as a journalist is not always fatal to creative writing...