Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first is bread, which has a reality, as the symbol of life, as never before in history.. . . The second is fats, for which there is an insatiable craving when in physical need. . . . The third is calories. That is the common denominator. . . . That word has become everywhere the grim measure of the steps along the road from plenty to hunger and thence to starvation...
...Washington." That night Harry Truman sent everybody off to the Shrine Circus. Mrs. Truman was very gay until a clown 'tried to sit on her lap. "That will be enough," said the First Lady firmly. Thereafter, and throughout the evening, the ladies noticed that Bess looked rather grim...
...threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
...attempt to solve the problems, within or between nations, that have risen out of the past war, they are judged by the standards Franklin Delano Roosevelt set for himself and his associates. He was the proof in our time that noble ideals need not be ground under in the grim, practical struggle for life...
...called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious was his ailment that his audience, after listening to his grim dissertation on Germany's total collapse, walked out convinced that the apparent tragedy was just a huge joke...