Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True Hearts. A few things were not so grim. Newspapers reported with wonderment the case of a young Osaka worker employed by the U.S. Army. He had been hit by a tram and seriously injured. Three U.S. corporals called on him in the hospital, offered to pay his medical expenses. His family was "overcome with the sense of true-heartedness of the Allied soldiers...
From his charred palace, Emperor Hirohito, attended by a grim-miened bodyguard (see cut), drove to the Diet building. There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature. Tears welled in his eyes and euphemisms from his lips as he spoke not of defeat or surrender but of "cessation of hostilities . . . termination of the war . . . extraordinary measure. . . ." His command to his subjects: "remain cool, maintain self-composure, exercise patience and circumspection . . . win the confidence of the world . . . make manifest the innate glory of Japan's national policy...
G.I.s stared with cold curiosity at the impressive wreckage of the Japanese Imperial Army. The tough brown soldiers, ragged, weary, grim, clung to packed trains and swarmed the roads, following the long way home from war. City dwellers cheered them, but unbombed rustics, who could not understand the surrender, jeered. The main Jap army was unbeaten in the field, but Leyte, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa had convinced Japan's rulers that their army could not win a battle...
Last week Frenchmen got a grim report of progress in dealing with them. By last month's end, only one-tenth had been removed (by French workmen and German prisoners of war trained by U.S. sappers). The dangerous job would not be finished before...
...population increase which normally adds 500,000 people a year to the labor force was canceled out for one year by the grim estimate of 500,000 armed service casualties who will never return to peacetime work. Once these adjustments were made, MacGowan's staff set the 1947 labor force at 60 million-5.9 million more than in 1939 when 8.9 million were unemployed...