Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plains to reap quick profits from the opportune cycle of heavy rainfall. Now, in the new dryness, their fields were being abandoned to the drought and wind. If the dry cycle continued through one or two more years, U.S. soil conservationists warned, the pale yellow ghost of the grim dark days could turn both frightening and real...
Impression of Menace. If the non-Communist world has not yet plumbed the leading New Bolshevik, it has, at least, an impression of him-an ominous impression. Western diplomats at Kremlin dinners have been struck by Malenkov's grim reserve and aloofness. Stalin, in the brief days of East-West banqueting, cracked a joke now & then, and Molotov sometimes unbent with vodka, but Number 2½ remained stiff and oddly repellent...
...home this might mean drastic political, social and economic changes: for example, letting in goods freely from dollar-starved Western Europe, and voting some kind of relief for damaged domestic industries. Abroad it meant seeking allies with the grim realism of war-and this was the second hardening in Acheson's thinking. "We are not dealing here," said Acheson, "with the kind of situation where we can go from one country to another with a piece of litmus paper and see whether everything is true blue. The only question we should ask is whether they are determined to protect...
...brow so grim...
While the grim farce continued, the emergency had become real. Steel plants prepared to shut down and coal was rationed to city-dwellers. Power was cut, railroad service curtailed. Estimates were that the country as a whole had only eight days' supply of coal; some areas were already down to almost nothing...