Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer called a meeting of white farmers, told them that this is just what Hitler wanted, just this kind of division among the U.S. people; Goebbels would be delighted. In view of the grim problems of this war, couldn't he count on their cooperation? When he finished talking the white men solemnly shook his hand...
Military men knew that a premature second front held terrifying possibilities of early and catastrophic failure. They calculated grimly the carefully trained men that might be lost, the precious materiel that might have to be abandoned to the Germans. While the civilian speakers waved the grim possibilities away, military men had to face them. It was not a pretty prospect...
...getting their initial training. Sometimes they were labor battalions. One afternoon there was the groan of airplane motors overhead and 50 huge black bombers sped low over the city, heading north. Unlike London, free from the pressure of bombing raids, and the U.S., stewing about inflation, a sense of grim reality hung over the heart of Russia...
...Siberian Arctic, until recently a grim prospect even for an Eskimo, has begun to yield to plane, radio, icebreaker...
...grim side of the pictures is that the Film Society is unincorporated, and its officers may still be paying for this summer even halfway through the war. Competition from the Suminer School and the heat has slowed down subscriptions to the point that there may be no Film Society next fall...