Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made last week's diplomatic crisis increasingly grave was that Japan's running fire of apologies were accompanied by a running fire of reports from survivors of the Panay. These made it apparent that not only had the Panay been boarded and identified by the Japanese, but bombed in broad daylight, machine-gunned by four planes, after the bombing, and finally machine-gunned by two Japanese motor boats as she was sinking...
...everywhere withdrawing in favor of the candidate favored by the Communist Party and the Stalin State. In all Russia last week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov...
...Guthrie's career, for he has always been more of an artist than a theologian (for some years he was an itinerant lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...
...present prosperity is, I fear, but a veneer that masks the grave dangers that will be obvious to anyone who explores beneath the surface. . . . Hovering clouds of war, mounting debt, financial fears and continued deficits in these days of comparative prosperity reveal themselves as sinister symptoms in a diagnosis of our national health. . . . But the American people are not dumb. Their pride in the industrial development of our nation is deep seated, and when they are sure that the unsocial in our midst are eliminated, they will turn to Management's help ... to get the ship back...
...real progress can be made. ... Is Government then prepared to join with business and labor and say in all frankness, 'Well, we haven't cared much for one member of this group, but after all, we haven't made much headway by fighting. The situation is grave and we need most of all to forgive and forget on all sides.' The times call for what might be termed a coalition government...