Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern Slavic peoples were fighting a complex, grim, ruthless and triangular war last week...
...story of Norway since the conquest shows that while a free democracy may be slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic when aroused. At home, the Norwegian people have silently resisted the invaders' will with grim determination. Abroad, Norwegian ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the cause of the United Nations...
...work, her manpower and womanpower mobilized and regimented, as it has been mobilized and regimented in Russia and, to a lesser extent, in Britain. The U.S. took notice. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "Canada always seemed to be ahead of us in coming to grips with the grim requirements of war, especially on the economic front, [but] however reluctantly and haltingly, we followed the pointing of her finger...
...first project is a tough baby: sell the people the grim necessities of fuel-oil rationing. First will come a national campaign for conservation, then local campaigns in the rationed areas. Other national problems to be approached similarly include the coming squeezes in manpower and transportation, wartime changes in eating habits...
...erstwhile admirers : his scratching pen gave way to an affectionate, romantic paintbrush. In lush, vibrant color, curling brush strokes that recalled Van Gogh's, he painted sunclean, little nudes in airy land scapes, glowing dunes and beaches of health and optimism. From the painter of Germany's grim, Gothic, post-war Walpurgisnacht, George Grosz was converted in the U.S. to a German lyricist celebrating love and nature with the old-time fervor of a Franz Schubert. Now he confesses: "I had been too nervous, too vain, too ambitious, now I can sit in the dunes and feel humble...