Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pain-racked frame, the deep-lined face, the grave voice were those of a man who had seen the horrors of war and the mysteries of death-and lived to tell the tale. Perhaps better than anyone he could tell the U.S. what war really meant...
...windowpanes. In the food lines, faces were sleepless and remote, and bitter quarrels broke out. Rulka saw a dead, horse in the street, stripped of its meat save for the haggard mask and stockings of hide. In a patch of grass at a street crossing, she found a little grave. At the foot was a glass with , two or three flowers in it. At the head was an amateur cross to which was thumbtacked a visiting card...
From Honolulu came a rare picture of habitually grave, businesslike CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz with his hands full of unaccustomed duty at the official opening of a Navy recreation center...
Hopes for the best M.I.T. swimming team in history came to a watery grave in the Techmen's glass enclosed mausoleum last night as Hal Ulen's boys eked out a 60 to 15 victory, winning every event except the dive...
...tool. What he represents in political warfare is another question. "A monumental piece of effrontery" was the verdict of the Fighting French. General Georges Catroux, Fighting French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, bitterly demanded that Darlan's power-grab "be ended quickly." He charged that there were grave dangers to Allied communication lines when "under control of a man like Darlan...