Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news pictures brought a quick and intimate sense of struggle: the grim face of Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, the new commander, surrounded by his staff (see cut); the fuzzy young faces and grizzled old faces of marines in foxholes; the bodies of Japs, looking menacing even in death, on the river banks. Though Guadalcanal was 6,000 miles away, it now seemed as close as the next block...
...small, imitation-marble pillared Federal courtroom in Chicago last week, six closely guarded naturalized U.S. citizens, German-born, went on trial for treason. By week's end the jury (nine housewives, three men) and a handful of spectators had heard the first grim chapters of a story that might well have come from the mind of a dime novelist...
...junior officer grew excited trying to get in touch with the Wasp, his captain snapped: "Don't hurry them. Let them be calm." One of the ships in the screen kept flashing the submarine alarm by semaphore, as if the whole fleet did not know by the grim torpedo-wakes cutting in all directions what was happening...
...female cast, tells of volunteer nurses huddled for weeks in a bomb shelter on Bataan. Its minimum of plot deals with the Fifth-Column finaglings of one of them. But Cry Havoc does not need much plot: it points a fierce picture of driving war, provides a grim drama of doomed women...
...Commander in Chief in India, chose as the six greatest generals of all time: Marlborough, Belisarius, Wellington, Frederick, Lee, Napoleon, in order. He picked no "greatest" war, but made plain a little of his feeling about this one. "Possibly my reflections may give others a rest from the present grim business," he concluded, "by reminding them of older and better wars." High aim of U.S. Army maneuvers in Tennessee (see p. 67) is the development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee highway one soldier, lost-looking, ambling, alone, without his gun, caught the eye of Lieut...