Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wounded. Of this battle you can see exactly nothing. But when you leave the banks of the river the ground war suddenly becomes very grim drama. Down muddy, green-walled tracks stagger wounded men, the blood still running from beneath grimy bandages, their green uniforms stained grey with mud, their faces lined, insect-bitten, haggard, sometimes fever-yellowed. Men with torn limbs lie, eyes closed, on crude log stretchers, borne on the muscled shoulders of kindly, perpetually plodding, splayfooted natives. A native walks beside each man, holding a huge green banana leaf to keep the burning sun from the head...
...that day the citizens of Toulon saw their sailors, proud and grim under the bayonets of their captors, being transported through the streets on their way to imprisonment. The Gestapo, which followed the troops in, had long lists of suspects. First to be arrested were all those who had survived the destruction in the harbor; later many civilians were taken in the Gestapo roundup...
...19th has had its moments of humor, most of them the kind that come to men when death has been cheated. Lieut. Jack Adams of Anadorko, Okla. was often the subject of such grim humor. Jack Adams, now a major, sank a transport and shot down three Zeros, but had to make a forced landing in a water-covered ricefield with two motors shot out. He and his crew, three of whom were wounded, returned three weeks later by boat, oxcart, automobile, train and plane. Captain Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before...
...nervously lighter side to the grim picture came yesterday from tales of escapes from the Grove. Many students, came close to being there, only to to miss at the last moment. Most amazing was the man who flipped a coin for the Grove or another spot. The coin said "Cocoaunt" but his date insisted on two out of three, and they missed fate. A Freshman, told he was too young to be served liquer, left petulantly five minutes before the fiame burst...
Running the Axis show, according to Rome radio, was Major General Walther Nehring, one of Germany's smartest tacticians. Under Nehring was an army estimated at 10,000 men, strengthened daily by airborne reinforcements and supplies. Hitler planned a grim last-ditch fight...