Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working on the grim, untried tactics of nuclear battle, the Seventh has adopted the "shield and spear" principle. Its five-division conventional weaponry would be a shield to stop the first assault, force the Russians to concentrate in attack forces big enough to be devastated by the Seventh's nuclear "spear." The spear is made up of half a dozen Corporal ballistic-missile battalions (100-mile range), Honest Johns, Redstones, 280-mm. cannon, 8-in. howitzers-together capable of delivering at least 100 atomic warheads simultaneously...
Fourteen years after the war, his nation restored to world councils, his society surprisingly stable and democratic, the German no longer lives just to work; he works to live-and to forget the grim existence before 1948, the year West Germany's struggling economy was remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then...
...Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President." Digging him at last, Aunt Janie inquired: "Of what?" "Of the U.S.," shouted Wilson. "Don't be silly!" snapped Aunt Janie, indignantly dismissing him from her presence...
...standing up there with my tin tray, having my bit of food plonked down in front of me like all the others." Barracks life was even more indigestible: "The thought of me in that little bed, with 15 other blokes around ... I felt real sick. It was grim, man-just grim." Within 48 hours Terry's delicate psyche collapsed, and the brass carted him off gently to a hospital ward...
...surprisingly outspoken report, a Ford Foundation team last week warned India that it is on a grim arithmetical collision course. Unless a drastic turn is taken, by 1966 the birth rate will have so outstripped food production that literally millions may starve to death in a crisis that "no conceivable program of imports or rationing can meet...