Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost like pre-war--almost, that is, except for the crowd, which left great bare places in the Stadium that were more reminiscent of "informal" games than of 1941 or '42. The band was there, and the cheerleaders, and even Coach Harlow sitting grim as over in back of his eager players, neat but not gaudy in his blue worsted and Varsity Club...
...doubt last week-the Soviet Government was again engaged in a nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of the first importance." The long, grim decree, announcing the purge, bore an ominous joint signature: Premier Joseph Stalin (for the Soviet Government) and Secretary Andrei A. Zhdanov (for the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party...
Milestones [TIME, Sept. 2] describes the late James Clark McReynolds, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as "grim, gruff." Here is a letter from the former Associate Justice, which might seem to admirably illustrate those qualities...
...Shoot a Prisoner." Similar cynicism had long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were...
...latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that a lost and frightened traveler would take the time to do so in grim earnest...