Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coined in a grim party diatribe telling why Fallen Angel Earl Browder was expelled (TIME, Feb. 18), the term would henceforth describe "rotten liberal attitudes" among strays in the class struggle. Noting the enrichment of the language, the editors of the New York Times commented...
...secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...
...Beleaguered City is a grim reminder to Americans of what can happen when even a peace-loving people finds its inner conflicts irrepressible...
...negative box were the first of his series of great war photographs. As soon as the plates were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were in the fight. He went . . . with his sleeves tucked up and his big camera directed upon every point of interest in the field...
...when racial antagonisms made the district doubly grim, Chicago's shrewd, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil marshaled his stockyard priests to help a new-established Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council fight them down. Soon Bishop Sheil and his aides had playgrounds and young people's clubs going in place of gang fights. The Catholic Church now plays a major role in determining the sentiment of the district-the factor which, in the long run, may well determine the outcome of the dispute. But the Church has rivals: last week, while Catholic priests tramped with the U.P.W.A...