Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Planemaker Donald Douglas half-seriously announced a grim postwar plan: "Shut the damned shop up" (TIME, Nov. 22, 1943). In Los Angeles last week able, dour Donald Douglas, still in business, told his 8,763 stockholders that the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: 1) had made a profit of $8,900,000 in 1945; 2) had a backlog of $219,000,000 in military and commercial orders; 3) could expect no profits...
Through the drab streets of Paris' Red Belt the grim word flashed: "Comrades, to the barricades! The Virgin of Boulogne is coming...
...Manhattan, a grim-looking company of men marched to the office of the New York Real Estate Board and stated their case. They were veterans who could not find a place to live. How about some of those big, empty houses on Fifth Avenue? they hinted. Before they marched out they said, "We're sick and tired of words...
...gypsies used to ride gaily up to the grim gates, never suspecting where they were being taken. They sang their racy songs until the very last minute-when they suddenly realized, without understanding, that they were in a concentration camp and that they...
...which the cancer strain was particularly high. Bits of cancer tissue from infected high-strain mice were sliced, put in gravity-defying centrifuges. The materials thus separated from malignant cancer cells were put back in the centrifuge for a second whirl. What was left was a whitish, dustlike powder-grim carrier of the virus...