Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue was too grave to vote on by a show of hands. Result of the secret ballot: 300 for the pacifist stand, 373 against. Laymen voted almost 2-to-1 against pacifism, but the clergy repudiated it by only one vote...
...slim, boyish-looking sergeant walked last week into the shabby front room of a shack on Pittsburgh's gritty North Side. He sat down, and with grave deliberation pulled off his boots, then broke out a plug of tobacco. "First chance I've had for a good chew since I got back," he said. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly was home...
...importance of this action was evident. A year ago carriers could not have penetrated Norwegian waters without grave risk; the Nazis were keeping up a stout cover of land-based fighters over the shipping which must supplement Norway's rudimentary railroad system. The carrier-borne attack which crippled the Tirpitz showed that the cover was thinning. Last week's communique indicated that it was practically nonexistent. The Germans needed all their fighters to protect the heartland...
Whitewashed behind the ears and rouged in Technicolor, this friendly piece of grave robbery substitutes drawling charm for the rawboned, murderous innocence of the frontier. A pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying...
...TIME (March 27) you published a picture of the headstone at the grave of my friend, Bonnie A. Little. It occurs to me that the editors and readers of TIME will be interested in certain facts concerning this marine, since no mention of him is made in the Tarawa piece entitled "On to Westward...