Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to be interested in reason or in the grim fact that only time and new construction would really solve the trouble, in Los Angeles or anywhere else. Los Angeles last week seemed to be convinced that low rents, high profits, ample housing, 100% occupancy and complete subjection of both landlords and tenants would be achieved if everyone only yelled loud enough...
...debacle of the London conference; the grim, plain, unheeded words of our scientists regarding the future of the atomic bomb; the President's absurd advocacy of universal peacetime, military conscription; the stupid reliance of our military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making...
What had changed his opinion since he returned from the isolation of Guam to the grim realities of Washington poli tics? He said that the integration of U.S. effort achieved in the closing days of the Pacific War had convinced him that everything would always be all right, even under the present divided setup...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...
...warns that the U.S., because of the shrinking of space and time by technology, has inherited Britain's hereditary role as antagonist of Europe's No. 1 power, whoever that may be. He also reports in detail the Soviet plans for a big navy. His grim conclusion: "The coming period in world history will be, at best, a period of armed truce...