Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months grim-faced Cajun shrimpers practiced on the bayous, in their tricky, pencil-shaped boats. The Cajuns of Louisiana's lower marshlands take their yearly pirogue race as seriously as Kentucky takes its Derby. This week on sultry Bayou Barataria, the 29 strongest paddlers lined up for the start...
...right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...
...they pulled into Berlin's suburban Wannsee station at one o'clock the next morning, the grim sights dimmed in the excitement of arrival. A brass band, on weary stand-by for five hours, blared out There'll Be Some Changes Made. Flash bulbs popped...
...Italian film "Open City" were nothing more than a grim study of wartime underground in Rome, it would stand as one of the most terrifying pictures of this type to come out of the war. If its only effective shots were the fearful pictures of the captured Italian underground leader about to die from German torture, and if the man's screams were the only stunning use of sound in the movie, "Open City" would burrow deep into the memory. If its epic simplicity were its only virtue, it would nonetheless rank as a fine motion picture...
...hard-riding, lone-wolfish hero (best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time's nick to liquidate wrongdoers and still ride fast to get there, but they are never the grim-lipped supermen of the sage wastes-just neighbors down the road...