Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Propaganda ranging from the slick to the grotesquely inept pours in there virtually 24 hours a day. This mad ethereal menu was described last week by George ("Smiley") Grim, Mutual Network and XGOY (Chungking) broadcaster, on loan from the U.S. Department of State to the Chinese Ministry of Information. Items : Items...
...Japanese offensive-hasty defense works and evacuation of civilians were abandoned. TIME Correspondent Teddy White reported that rockets crimsoned the sky, firecrackers popped and pinwheels whirled, newsboys shrieked the tidings in late extras. At the American air bases where transports had been hurrying out refugees and stores, the grim mood lifted. G.I.s smiled, wiped the sweat from their faces, boasted happily: "We done it again...
...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
...Payoff. At exactly 12:17½ a tall, slim officer with a rifle slung over one shoulder scrambled up the bank of the Caen Canal. Behind him came a sweating, 21-year-old Glasgow piper, behind the piper a long line of grim-bereted Commando troops. The paratroop brigadier came up to shake Lord Lovat's hand. Their greeting was brief and British...
...Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape, no robbery. Six special investigators went to work; 30 state police beat through the dark woods; and the boys' father flew home, grim-faced, and rushed his wife to Boston for a brain operation...