Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 3, 1939, little Britons in pubs and big Britons in clubs have debated whether the whole German people are to blame for Nazi Germany and World War II, or whether only evil, powerful men and their dupes are responsible. Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue...
Then the soldiers' day begins with steel-helmeted troops marching at dawn from Moscow to the battlefront. Within seconds the film plunges into the grim reality of war: a Marine, crawling across a field near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village...
...newly published British Government pamphlet, called A Guide to the Preservation of Life at Sea after Shipwreck, sells for fourpence in London and tells in simple, sometimes grim language the personal lessons learned in World Sea War II. Sample lessons...
...west coast British ports, 10%; for passage to India via the Cape of Good Hope, 20%. In contrast are rates on shipping from the West Coast to Hawaii, where sinkings have been rare: 1½%. British civilians last week were warned to expect short rations, prepare themselves for a grim year...
Warned the Food Ministry: "It will be a hard, grim year ... of increasing shortages and inconveniences...