Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
...Grim Memories. Long-suffering Britons hastened to obey. The warning revived grim memories of the freezing winter of 1947 when the coal strike paralyzed industry and transport, threw 4,000,000 out of -work, sent overcoated millions to a long diet of cold food...
...Grim Jaws. I found few rank & file Yugoslavs who looked that far ahead with that much optimism. Why then do the people set their jaws grimly and bear the confusion and hardship? Apathy is part of the answer. It is easier to get along with the police state than to stand...
...fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore, investors saw more inflation ahead and rushed to buy stocks as a hedge against...
Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell) is a sternly workmanlike type with no quaint traits. The most likable character is a bighearted, middle-aged floozy (Olive Sloane) who shelters the professor. But the real heroine of Seven Days is London, with its streets, landmarks and citizens. The city gives a terrifyingly good performance...