Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cash crops that pay the natives' paltry wages), there was hunger and destitution on this lush, mountainous, crowded island-stepchild of the U.S. economy. Now that German subs lurk in the Caribbean and ships are needed elsewhere for war, famine might cease to be a threat, become a grim reality...
...Hell," said an indignant inmate of California's grim 404-acre San Quentin Prison, "there's more patriotism inside here than outside...
Cause of the hurried trip was the flat refusal of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1 at Butte, Mont, to allow Negro workers down the shafts of Anaconda Copper. This was in grim defiance of C.I.O.'s strong pro-Negro policies. It was also in defiance of the U.S. Army, and of an Administration patently striving to promote amicable Negro-white relations among the labor forces of this country...
Always ready to see the brighter side of a grim situation, Time was thrilled to know that Harvard men read the publication so carefully. But as for the tone of the manifestations of reader interest, Time said "Zounds...
Karl Deusch, former student at the University of Prague, now teaching at M.I.T., gave a grim account of the details of the attack. He recalled the arrival of Nazi motorized troops at the university, the machine-gunning of students in the dormitories, and the deportation to concentration camps of 1200 men and women of whom only 500 are alive today. Demonstrations were held yesterday in all of the United Nations and in over 200 colleges in this country...