Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harassed police ducked beer bottles and bullets, and in armored cars went on an I.R.A. hunt. In two days they jailed 200 suspects, most of them from the grim little streets of the Belfast slums. In the towns they found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country they found two arms dumps. They killed a sentry in an Antrim County barnyard, discovered he was guarding ten beer kegs of nitroglycerin, 60 revolvers, eight rifles, seven tommy guns, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and tear gas. At a neighboring farm they found a second cache...
...grim fact is that war-needed food is going to waste. But even grimmer are two other facts: 1) the Administration, after wringing its hands for ten years over problems of migrants who, like waves of misery, used to follow the crops, has awakened too late to the fact that the Joads are immobilized by lack of tires or are abandoning their calling for lush war jobs; 2) next year will be even worse. This week the Government haltingly moved to save what could be saved. It rounded up 183 migrants in the Virginias, put them on buses and trains...
Moscow realized that one of the grimmest winters in grim Russian history was drawing near. Yet New York Timesman Ralph Parker found "little brooding or despondency," even in homes struck by war casualties. The common experience of air raids, battles, occupation and flight drew the people together. As war's sharp elbow kept nudging their ribs, the Russians snatched what pleasures they could...
...were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra help, they still could not deliver all the thousands of Hamsun volumes winging home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When...
They must have sufficient knowledge of Army habits to enable them to act as part of a regimental staff. They must not be soft, so conditioning classes and drill have been part of their training. Army life in grim reality has overtaken them, for reveille sounds each morning at 6:30 o'clock...