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...Grimmest example is aircraft. This year, the U.S. planned to produce 4,500 planes; it will actually produce only...
...Korean war reached its grimmest and most dangerous stage. Early in the week, there was some hope in the fact that the North Koreans seemed to be in a desperate hurry. Their dead piled up in heaps before U.S. machine guns that jammed from their own heat. The North Koreans kept on coming; the Americans fought to keep their own pace, when they were driven back, to orderly retirement. It was a furious assault, and soundly based on the lessons of military history; the North Koreans were trying to turn a stubbornly fought retreat into a rout, seize the Pusan...
...readers, Orwell is known chiefly through last year's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was mortally ill with tuberculosis when he wrote it. But Orwell's mind had never been more lucid. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the grimmest, the most logically imagined and credible preview of the totalitarian state in print.* It is not so much a satire as a portent. The 18th Century's great Dean Swift, whom Orwell admired and to whom he has been compared, is at best a distant literary cousin. Gulliver's Travels discursively, and sometimes vindictively, pilloried comparatively commonplace human failings...
Aiken, on the other hand, has expressed opposition to the scientific Utopianism proposed by Skinner. According to Aiken, Skinner's view ". . . leads to the most desperate, grimmest sort of police state imaginable...
...game 35,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever to watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...