Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fuehrer's Face is excellent mockery; but we don't want too much of that. . . . Much better is religious fanaticism; at its grim best in defeat. John Brown's body lay amoldering, but his soul went marching on. Till we get another such real rouser, a song for men, and keep the Julia Ward Howe's lady fingers off it, the popular Praise the Lord, etc., will do to go on with...
...Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine gun, sir," said the private. "That's not a machine gun," Patton roared...
Soviet Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary as it did its first-with enemy armies deeply entrenched in Russian soil. But in a sober speech honoring the anniversary last week, grim-faced Joseph Stalin voiced his faith in victory. Said...
Somewhere behind the German lines, Erwin Rommel listened with grim interest to the uproar of British guns and high-domed Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
...their homes Norwegians heard of the Propaganda Minister's death from the German-controlled Oslo radio. Their grim jest: the ferryboat skipper had "made those dives to be sure the car doors were locked...