Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was also no doubt that when Devers' men reached the enemy's main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
...hope for the best." It was a grim bit of humor. In November V-bombs had killed 716 civilians, had injured 1,511. Londoners did not have to compare November's toll with October's (172 killed, 416 injured) to realize that V-2 was now a threat to bring back the worst days of last summer,* before a defense had been found against...
Prime Minister Churchill was grim as he exhumed the "grim, bare bones" of the Polish question. He reported: "On Feb. 22 I said that at Teheran I took occasion to raise personally with Marshal Stalin the question of the future of Poland. It was with great pleasure that I heard from Marshal Stalin that he, too, was resolved upon the creation and maintenance of a strong, integral, independent Poland as one of the leading powers in Europe. He several times repeated this declaration in public. I am convinced that that represents the settled policy of the Soviet Union...
...Japs plowed on, occupied an empty shell of a town beyond Tushan before they stopped. Then they began to back up, abandoned the scarred hulk of Tushan. Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with...
Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...