Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buying war bonds was patriotic but dull for months on end, a duty of the stuffiest kind, which wounded one's wallet at the same time it depressed the spirit. Then the Treasury soft-pedaled the grim reminders of danger, need and duty, and called in Hollywood and Broadway. As one man the pressagents ordered: "Cheesecake...
...Glasgow Herald, only provincial paper blaming the British, found the Indian situation "a grim and sorry reflection" of past iniquities. The Laborite London Daily Herald, long committed editorially to Indian independence, criticized the "precipitate imprisonment" of Gandhi as an invitation for "unknowns" to run wild. The Manchester Guardian urged: "Our Allies-the U.S., Russia and China-should help us to compose a quarrel which injures every one of them. . . . We should refuse fatalistically to accept a new hostile front in India, whose people are our friends...
Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
...Soldiers Are Tough (Warwick Pictures; United Artists). This Canadian propaganda documentary film sums up in grim news shots some of the bitterest lessons of warfare that the United Nations have learned from fighting the Axis. It is also a preview of the ways in which the United Nations are planning to show teacher how much they have learned...
From some of its own citizens, jailed in the Far East after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. learned what it means to be a Japanese prisoner. The civilians, safe in Portuguese East Africa after a prisoner exchange, sent home stories that made grim reading...