Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentle art of diplomacy become such a grim business? Because "the survival of Totalitaria" depends primarily on "bad relations with Western democracies," wrote Lord Vansittart, for eight-years the head of Britain's diplomatic careerists, in the current Foreign Affairs. "There is a smell of the jungle about these dense growths of words which smother old conceptions like voluble creepers," he said. "Part of our species is being conducted by sedulous apes back to the treetops...