Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...
...startled doubletake they pulled over in a hurry. On the fenders of the lead jeep were two small shiny metal flags, one carrying the three stars of a lieutenant general, the other bearing the letters "CG-8." In the lead jeep, his big hand grasping an arm rest, was grim-faced Walton Harris Walker, 60, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army...
...Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union...
...recall a conversation that came to my mind today which I had with Marshal Stalin at a very grim period of the war in December 1941. One night, after our discussions about the immediate situation were over and we were conversing more discursively, we spoke of Hitler. After all, the German armies were then about 40 miles from Moscow. We discussed his character and I remember that Marshal Stalin made this comment: 'We should not underrate Hitler. He is a very able man, but he made one mistake. He did not know when to stop...
Over Lukewarm Water. By the time the white-faced widow is haled before a grim judge and jury, Author Trollope has haled half of England into his novel-including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...