Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meat and chewing-gum shortages, may be possessed of a deep sense of the world crisis in which they are involved, may be growing aware that their generation is shaping the history of the world. Their outward apathy may cover a realistic appraisal of the task they face, a grim realization that the better world they want is not to be built overnight in a glorious burst of crusading exaltation, but only by hard, slow, disagreeable, long-continued trial & error. Perhaps Americans must sacrifice old dislikes, perhaps even material advantages, to win to that better world...
...generous emulation, true brothers in arms, will attack and grapple with the deadly foe. ... I say that our supreme duty-all of us, British and American alike-is to preserve that good will which now exists throughout the English-speaking world and thus aid our armies in their grim and heavy task...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles and upon his own confession [he] has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for violation of the Christian law of chastity." Lyman was the twelfth Apostle to be excommunicated since the sect was founded. He was the son of an Apostle, the grandson...
Without pleasure, Tammany Leader Michael J. Kennedy arrived at his headquarters early on election evening. He and Tammany's Secretary Bert Stand chatted idly in the lonely office, occasionally stared outside at the foggy dusk. They were alone until 7:30; then a half dozen district leaders, grim as the weather, dropped in to make a faint pass at gaiety...
...from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends the film on a grim exchange between a battle-bittered Marine and an unblooded Army boy, and the closeup of a sign Tokyo, 3,380½ miles...