Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grim Backdrop. Promptly at noon the two leaders, arm in arm, walked down the marble steps of the high-vaulted National Assembly Chamber to a lectern decked with the flags of the Korean Republic, the U.S. and the U.N. Through gaping windows blew the strong, sickly sweet smell of corpses lying in shattered buildings outside. Now & then wisps of ash drifted in, and tinkling splinters of glass fell from the broken skylight above...
...hours shivering miners' wives, their scarves tightly knotted beneath blue pinched faces, stood round the pithead in stunned misery, while Salvation Army officers served tea and prayed, and squeaking shaft wheels lowered rescue teams into the smoke-choked mine. Meanwhile, grim-faced union and government officials sat in conference. At midday they issued a statement...
...rained for 62 days. The crops around Clarissa, Minn. (pop. 645) had withered away to almost nothing. In the village park the pines had lost their green vigor and the dry earth was dust brown. But everyone, as Reporter George Grim of the Minneapolis Tribune noted, had gathered nonetheless for the community service that features Clarissa's annual harvest festival. They joined in singing...
...Motorists passing on the highway slowed down," Grim reported. "Some stopped to listen, remained to catch the spirit of the morning." A thin sun broke through the haze. Tanned farmers, assembled from their parched fields, looked silently up at it. "We thank Thee for Thy goodness," said a voice from the platform. Children romping on the brown grass were shushed by their parents. George Etzell, editor of the Clarissa Independent, took notes on the sermon, sitting near the war memorial bearing the names of Clarissa citizens who fought in two wars. Three families at the service were thinking of their...
What he was talking about was the grim adventure last week of Frank Emery, 23, International News Service Correspondent, and Randolph Churchill, 39, of the London Daily Telegraph. After several days at "Sioggerville" (correspondents' slang for a dangerous sector), Emery and Churchill had gone to a quiet sector for a rest. There, a G.I. braced them: "You fellows always talk to the brass and never give us a break. Why don't you come on patrol with us tonight and tell the people back home how tough it is ... There won't be any danger. We know...