Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, railroads had just about dug their way out of the piled-up drifts. But the outlook was grim. Hollow-eyed, bone-tired railroaders who paused long enough to look at their calendars found that officially winter was but a few days old. Snow and ice, worst of all their troubles, had just begun...
...earn its reputation as a strong union town, Seattle ran a grim gamut of labor trouble, from a bitter citywide general strike (1919) to bloody waterfront wars (1934). Last week a strike made news which the newspapers could not report...
...Secretary for India, crusty, conservative old Leopold Amery had stood by Churchill's side during the war's grim years. In October, the King awarded the rare Imperial Order of the Crown of India to Mrs. Florence Amery. Five weeks later the Amerys' elder son stood in the dock at Old Bailey and heard a judge intone:"John Amery, you now stand a self-convicted traitor to your King and country, and you have forfeited the right to live...
Calmly confident, Army's cadets bet that their wonder team would collect a touchdown in four plays. Said Navy's grim Coach Oscar Hagberg: "Army can't call its shots against us. We're not that bad." To find out, President Truman and 102,000 other fans last week jammed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...