Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Purchasing Commission's Sir Louis Beale told the delegates about British purchases and plans, a Manhattan importer named Carl Whitman jumped from his chair, shouted "Hey! When are you going to pay what you owe us?" Next to those, the convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods...
This plan was based on the grimmest of assumptions: i) that Germany will shortly crush England; 2) that U. S. policy is utterly committed to military and economic defense of every speck of this hemisphere; 3) that the U. S. is strong enough to protect South America militarily...
...know what the colossal raid means for the people of Paris-nothing." The third and by far the grimmest German-and Italian-enterprise was the death struggle which was instinctively named The Battle of France-aimed at the morale of a people. But even this Reynaud challenged. "The dream of German hegemony will clash with French resolution. The France resisting Hitler today is not one between two wars. It is a different France, just as England combatting Hitler is not the England of the past 20 years. We of June, 1940, shall not lose our time debating responsibilities when...
Wherever death was grimmest you were there...
...little fellow, too, who always calls Pinocchio "Pinoak," yells, "Break it up, boys," to the marine life that gets under his feet. When Monstro the Whale sneezes catastrophically, Jiminy says: "Gesundheit." Most people will call Jiminy Cricket the most human character in Pinocchio and Disney's best inspiration. Grimmest inspiration is Pleasure Island, where little boys turn into asses. Not the moral, but the one vulgarly realistic false note, will scare the wits out of little boys and girls...