Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dimly lit Dail Chamber. "Like mourners," cracked a newsman, "heavy with the wake's hangover, for the funeral of Kathleen ni Houlihan." Throughout the war stubborn, belligerently neutral Eire had feasted while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young potato plants to withered stalks, leaving a million Irish dead of starvation, and sending a million-odd more...
There to Stay. These words, which described realities, had the grim sound of an epitaph. But the Truman Doctrine might conceivably be U.N.'s salvation...
Dumb Crambo. Wilhelmina of The Netherlands once told her doll: "If you're not good, I'll turn you into a princess and then you'll have no one to play with." In Princess Elizabeth's life there was never any such grim circumscription. At the Duke's house in Piccadilly there were always a host of little cousins, lords and honorables for playmates. Devoted to horses (she pretended her legs were a team and called them Flycatcher and Harmony), she had her own pony at four. Her backyards were the family's vast...
...years later the country went to war. As Britain's people buckled down to their grim existence, they demanded more & more the comfort of seeing their imperial darling. "Why didn't you bring the Princess?" war-plant workers often shouted at the King and Queen. "We want Elizabeth...
...jumbled maze of Freshman life comes, once a year, a floating weekend of joy--the Jubilee. However grim the winter, spring must come at last, and traditional accompaniment for robins, seersucker jackets, and young fancies is the giant Yardling extravaganza...