Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...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...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
...Jones family that Lowell had been wounded. The shot of Lowell on TV raised the question of whether TV and newsreel companies ought to take pictures of wounded U.S. fighters before the men's families are given official notification. To any family, official notification of a casualty is grim business, but accidental notification can be grimmer still...