Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe..." With a grim weariness, the President read off a sharp, carefully worded statement on China: "Ambassador Austin has fully and forcefully presented the views of this Government...toward aggression by the Chinese Communists...Each member of the United Nations must make its own decision on this issue." Then, his voice twanging like a bowstring, the President leaned forward. "For my part," he said, biting off each word, "I believe in calling an aggressor an aggressor...This is the time for clear thinking and firmness...
...show brought the President out of his mood of beaming good humor with a start. When Mrs. Alben Barkley wheeled onstage "the most important man in the U.S.," Pfc. Anthony Troilo, 25, who had lost both legs in Korea, Harry Truman was the first man on his feet, grim-jawed and clapping...
...With grim determination we must firmly embrace the principles of our forefathers, who fought and died that we might remain free. Patrick Henry's words are as true today as when he spoke them. Our 162 years of history have brought us to the pinnacle of human progress. There is only one way to go. Forward...
Students throughout the nation are sore beset with doubts and fears; the grim spectre of compulsory service hangs heavy over their heads like the sword of Damocles. But we must remember that youth is the lifeblood of the nation. Still we cannot send a boy to do the man's job of stopping the savage hordes from the arid steppes. We must heed the clarion call of duty...
...Sleeping. The 2nd Division was singled out for handsome praise last week by General Ridgway, the Eighth Army commander. No doubt this, and the toll of enemy casualties, comforted the G.I.s-if anything could comfort them in the dreadful mountain winter. In a grim dispatch describing their ordeals in the "awful, bitter, uncompromising, relentless cold," Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas quoted a mortar platoon lieutenant addressing a handful of green replacements...