Word: grimmest
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Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...
...biggest jobs: to convince 37 nationalities in some of Boston's grimmest slums that he was no Fauntleroy...
...Specter. Could the U.S. do more than it was doing? Back to Washington came Herbert Hoover, after a 35,000-mile tour through 25 food-short countries. After reporting to the President, he broadcast to the nation what he had seen: "The grimmest specter of famine in all the history of the world. . . . Hunger hangs over the homes of 800,000,000 people . . . over one-third of the people of the earth...
...Windows is the third volume of Playwright O'Casey's autobiography (preceding volumes: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway). Rambling, rhapsodic, episodic, it is written sometimes in straightaway English, sometimes in lyrical doubletalk like that of the earlier James Joyce. The subject is his grimmest, bitterest, pre-playwright years: the 15 years or so up to and including the 1916 Easter Week Rising. Like almost any good book written by a good Irishman about those days, Drums is at bottom sentimental and romantic, but the resemblance to the standard stops about there. O'Casey...
...that would far surpass the combined fleets of the world (Britain, France and Russia). Before the House Naval Affairs Committee, Secretary James Forrestal summarized it: a 300-ship active fleet, a 100-ship "ready reserve," plus a 700-ship "laid-up reserve" to be called out only under the grimmest conditions...