Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia. Last week came Hungary's great chance. She took it-but not in the old-fashioned Balkan manner. In other times what was done in Vienna last week would have rocked the chancelleries of Europe, shaken bourse and market, reverberated around the world in grimmest headlines. Not so under the New Order. To Rome it was "a victory of Axis policy which reveals to the world its true constructive character, its clarifying, its civilizing spirit." As to that, there was some argument, particularly in Rumania, but no one could gainsay the Axis victory. When Russia...
...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...