Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week went President William S. Farish and associates of The Standard Oil Company (N.J.) armed with bottles and briefs, and with grim determination to clear the name of Standard (N.J.) in the eyes of the people (U.S.) The bottles contained samples of certain synthetics now vital in the war effort; the briefs contained case histories of Standard's deals with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie by which the vital synthetics were secured...
Quiet. However rambunctious in the past, Cheyfitz gave not one peep after WLB's jolting decision. But his old sidekick, tough, grim-faced Alex Balint sounded off, lambasted the order as a "mistake," said that worker "morale has dropped from 100% to zero." Then the union surprised everybody, said it would not sanction any protest strike because "we fully realize it would only create disunity...
Never has there been such a grim willingness on the part of the American public to do whatever they can for the war effort, declared Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, in a lecture yesterday afternoon on "American History and the Peace Problem...
Artfully sidestepping the censors, Morrison rumbled his warnings of the grim consequences of Allied defeat in the desert, begged for American men and American equipment, dramatized the vague Libyan-Egyptian front within an inch of his listeners' lives. Announced he in a first broadcast: "I'm going up to the desert where other people are fighting my battle-Englishmen and Indians and South Africans and New Zealanders. Let us know when you're coming, Americans. We'll bake a cake...
...troops, on maneuvers last week, exceeded the hopes of their officers. The soldiers were serious, even grim...