Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal come into existence? It was because in 1932 there was an awfully sick patient called the United States of America. He was suffering from a grave internal disorder-he was awfully sick-he had all kinds of internal troubles. And they sent for the doctor. And it was a long, long, process; it took several years before those ills, that illness of ten years ago, were remedied...
...Gangrene. To a skilled tactician like Manstein, today's defeat was less grave than its impact on tomorrow. Already, his fleeing men had far outpaced the German armies in the north, exposing their flank. With each day, too, the position of his 20-odd divisions caught in the Dnieper bend became more desperate. A lone railroad of supply and escape was in grave danger...
...disastrous clash between his fierce native warriors and the colonists of Cecil Rhodes. The battle secured Rhodesia for the white men, blasted the last barrier to their march across Africa. In after years, white men heard that Lobengula had killed himself, that he had died of smallpox, that his grave was a cache of buried treasure. But the Matabele kept silence: the king's body and grave were never found until a rain-goddess gave the secret away last month...
Place of Death. The old men said: "It was our wish that the grave should never be found, but why should we remain silent now?" They told how Lobengula fled only when the battle was clearly lost. By his order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...
Radio Commentator Jacques Bartaud moaned: "A wave of depression is sweeping France [causing] a very grave national neurosis. From this state of mind to Gaullism is only one step...