Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition within Yugoslavia (which Tito has ruthlessly suppressed): "We are not against any opposition movement which desires to assist in the reconstruction of the country." But, added Tito indignantly, the present opposition actually "seeks to profit by the mistakes we make." He made a grim prophecy: "I know [the opposition] will never become stronger, only weaker...
...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Assistant Secretary Hilldring's advisers agree that the British have been completely unable to get smoke pouring out of the Ruhr stacks, and that if the policy stated boldly by Byrnes is to be anything but a grim failure, it must be supported, at least through its critical initial stages, by U.S. resources, food and know...
...knows how many million Russians have been killed, since 1917, by purges, terror and other Government repressive measures. Certainly, the grim total must be numbered in millions. Brooks Atkinson, former N.Y. Times correspondent in Moscow, believes that ten to 15 million Russians are in Soviet jails, forced labor camps or exile. For the leaders of the Soviet Government are possessed by fanatical dogmas which they mean to make live at all costs. And the patient Russian people, who merely want to live, are possessed body & soul by their Government. The struggle between them, however hidden, is ceaseless. Purges indicate...
...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...