Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Conference for Human Welfare, composed mostly of liberal whites, took a full-page advertisement in the Birmingham News-Age-Herald for an open letter to the President: ". . . There has been artificially created in the South grave racial tension. . . . Violent speeches filled with Nazi ideas and phrases are inciting race hatred and conflict. ... A widely advertised campaign to revive the K.K.K. is preparing the South for organized racial violence. With grave concern responsible Southerners are watching the subversive efforts of irresponsible politicians who for selfish purposes are endangering the nation's war effort...
...Despite the very grave warning by the Commander of the Wehrmacht, Air General Christiansen, the perpetrators of the high-explosive attempt near Rotterdam have been too cowardly to give themselves up. The following five hostages have been shot this morning...
Private Travis Hammond, a good-looking, curly-haired U.S. soldier from Keltys, Tex., was accused of raping a pretty, 16-year-old English shopgirl. This was the first test of the four-day-old U.S.A. Visiting Forces Bill rushed through Parliament under uneasy protest and with grave doubts in both the U.S. and Britain. The bill removed from British courts the power to handle criminal charges against U.S. soldiers. Last week Britons watched to see how a U.S. court would act-and approved in practice what they disliked in theory...
What the People said in the Europe of 1914, in the Europe of 1939, was what the Spokesmen said-and as stirring as were their words, they were words as conscious, as grave, as ordered and educated as those of Edward Gray. No agency existed in the hot midsummer of 1914 to span the teeming continent of Europe to take the pulse of the people who were to be the casualties, the heroes, the victims-or the survivors. No backward look by the autobiographers, the novelists, the poets, could bring clearly into view the first impact of war upon...
Taking for granted adequate theological proficiency, the classes, attended by Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains together, offer instruction to these complete novices to Army life in everything from grave registering to close order drill. The chaplains, who enter as First Lieutenants, will form part of the regimental staffs and must be acquainted with Army practices...