Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sarcasm did not bite. But many a plain citizen re-echoed General Marshall's grim comment that the Senate was giving Hitler a welcome, whistle-blown "time...
Captain Don Forte promised the spirited student gathering before the Varsity Club that Princeton will be in for a grim football fight, while Slammin' Stan Durwood advocated plenty of pep in the stands just to keep his cohorts in the line setting up big openings for the Harlow backs to romp through...
This big (790-page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling...
...London and Washington, however, it looked as if Comrade Stalin were doing more than having a little grim fun with his allies and trying to toughen up the war.* Stalin, they suspected, had not forgotten that Hess went to Britain to seek an ally against Bolshevism. Perhaps Stalin, brooding over the shortcomings of his allies (TIME, Oct. 12), feared that Hess might be exerting some influence in Britain...
...days of America's peacetime foreign trade were not just nostalgic memory to the 1,200 foreign traders who gathered in Boston last week for the meeting of the National Foreign Trade Council. For them, the present represents nothing but grim economic tragedy...