Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, many were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...
LONDON--The Dean of Westminister Abbey today told a group of excavators to pack up their spades and get out after they had opened the wrong grave in search of an answer to the 170-year-old dispute as to whether William Shakespeare really wrote his own stuff...
This is one of the grave consequences of the "failure of Congress and the Supreme Court to find a more realistic and determinate line between judicial and executive discretion," he said...
...spite of the grave social dilemmas they point to-the threat of fascism, war. increasing nationalism, moral confusion-the contributors to America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists...