Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico inflation is a grim reality...
...This grim study is most notably relieved...
Once again the red cannon rolled. They boomed for countless men grey from the foe. In Berlin Nazi spokesmen babbled of "evading actions" and "elastic defense." But the grim face of the war map uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin...
...Silent Village, produced by Humphrey Jennings, is a reenactment by Welsh miners of the story of Lidice, the Czech mining village whose male population was executed by the Nazis, in revenge for the killing of "Hangman" Heydrich. Out of all the uneasy efforts to commemorate that grim tragedy, The Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with...
Harvard's Allport, helped by Elizabeth Winship, examined 3,226 headlines printed in a dozen representative papers between mid-August and mid-November, 1942-a period in which the good news of North Africa was balanced by grim news from other fronts. He found 1,918 of the headlines optimistic (U.S. FLEET ROUTS JAPS), only 703 pessimistic (MEATLESS DAYS LOOM) and 605 neutral (CONVOY STORY TOLD...