Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During their 11 months as hosts to U.N., New Yorkers had witnessed some exotic spectacles. There was the turbaned Moslem strolling unconcernedly down Fifth Avenue; the sight of Russia's Molotov, convoyed by a squad of bulky, grim-visaged MVD agents; the group of berobed delegates gulping down şişkebap in a midtown restaurant. The U.N. meetings themselves, at Lake Success, were almost as good as the Dodgers at Ebbets Field...
...Hungry Britain, waiting for the 160,000,000 bushels of wheat Canada had promised her this crop year, got some grim statistics. By last week, the official end of the Great Lakes navigation season, Canada had exported only 75,000,000 bu. -its poorest showing since 1942. Britain had got only about 52,000.000 bu. of that; the rest went to markets like the West Indies, Africa, India. Reasons for late and small delivery: i) Canada's small wheat carryover; 2) a shortage of railway cars, use of wheat ships for coal after last spring's U.S. coal...
Sister Theophane and Sister Michael, wearing the blue-grey habit of the Medical Mission Sisters,* arrived in Santa Fe, N. Mex. one bleak November day in 1943. The sisters had not come for the scenery. They were there because of a grim fact: Santa Fe County had the highest infant mortality rate (111 per 1,000) and the second highest maternal death rate (over...
...prevents the disease. Three to six injections of arsenical drugs clear it up. Penicillin cures it permanently, apparently without danger of reinfection. But for lack of soap, water and penicillin, 80% of the people of Haiti are afflicted with the foul, rotting disease known as yaws. That was the grim news last week from a U.S. Sanitary Mission which has been manfully fighting yaws in Haiti for nearly three years-with little success...
...maybe it was twelve, of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, "I've Always Loved You" concerns itself with the silliest three people of recent screen history. If it had been played by the Marx Bros., the picture might have had a certain drollness. As it is, played in grim earnest by Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, and William Carter, it is slightly hideous...