Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred were nervous girls invited to a dance after the show. The rest were patients, most of them in wheel chairs or on crutches, canes and artificial legs. Guffawing noisily and applauding wildly, they found the show very taking and apparently therapeutic. To outsiders, however, Grand Lawsony was so grim and painful at times that it seemed more like Grand Guignol. After an opening cancan by Red Cross nurses, the show shifted to a foxhole where a one-armed G.I. dubbed Manny Tomville dreams of ordering "breakfast and a blonde to match," is rewarded with pirouetting amputees dressed as girls...
...spearheads on the west bank could reach farther. Konev columns snaked around Breslau, sealed off Silesia's largest city, locked up its garrison. Red Army Tommy gunners broke into the town, began a grim house-to-house fight...
...There are some Americans who are still sleepwalking amidst the grim and terrible realities in Europe...
There's MacArthur! Occasional shells from Jap artillery still fell in the com pound. While gaunt and sickly survivors cheered from the windows ("He's back!"), the General greeted old friends-Colonel Charles C. E. Livingston, who had become camp chief of police; Colonel Peter Grim, the new commandant of Santo Tomas...
...Nazis denounced him as a traitor, reportedly put his family in a concentration camp. Grim Paulus stood firm. Last week he was still broadcasting to Germany for the Russians...