Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went up more...
Lucky Warning. By dawn, the acting base commander could add up his night's grim work. Of the plane's crew of 20, twelve were dead or missing, including General Travis. Seven other blasted bodies were believed to be those of the base fire men. Sixty men & women of the trailer camp had been treated for injuries. Had there been no warning before the bomb explosions, the fatalities would have been catastrophic, for the mangled corner of the Fairfield-Suisun air base looked exactly as though it had been the B-29's target for the night...
...Communists kept on rolling. Some times they were stopped, temporarily; more often they advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault...
...week's end, the President boarded the Williamsburg for a cruise down the Potomac, a one-day pause in his steady, and increasingly grim, preoccupation with his job. He was in touch, by radio, with the news from Korea, also increasingly grim. The current was carrying him on. It seemed only a question of time before President Truman would have to take stouter action. The nation's preparations, as Bernard Baruch had well said, had to be keyed to the worst possibilities of Russian behavior, not to the least dislocation of the U.S. economy...
...Bailey is weakest where it might have been richest: in Author O'Donnell's sketchy, fleshless recounting of the trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...