Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
When his audience stopped laughing, Churchill got grim again. Said he: "I hope to live to see the British democracy spit all this rubbish from their lips...
...husband of twelve years. It was just a year since the Swedish-born star, 34, had met the balding, 43-year-old Italian director in Hollywood and first talked of going to Italy to make Stromboli with him. It was just nine months since Dr. Lindstrom had spent two grim days in Sicily with Ingrid and Rossellini, trying to talk her out of her world-publicized romance and her demands for a divorce...