Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICHY--Chief of Government Pierre Laval demanded today that Britain release the nine French warships interned at Alexandria since 1940 and warned Britain and the United States that any attack on them might result in "grave consequences...
...repulsive husband, Stanley Vance, and it is only at the news of his death that she gets well. She plans a return to Broadway with a new show after a trial run in Greenwich. At the end of the first week, Stanley Vance reappears, not from the grave, but from San Quentin. Immediately his strange hold over Jessica reasserts itself and she falls sick again. All that Vance wants is money and he plans to get it through his control of the star. As soon as he appears, the audience realizes that he will be murdered somewhere in the second...
Caught between these columns were great and now partially isolated segments of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's armies. A grave effect of the German strategy was to confront Timoshenko with several simultaneous Nazi fronts, further draining his limited totals of men and weapons, giving him the difficult choice of retreat or encirclement. He chose to retreat...
...take their kid gloves off. Only a few people think that Egypt is as good as lost; many more are pinning their faith on the Tommies' renowned ability to fight best with their backs to the wall. The official view is that "the situation is serious but not grave...
...Married An Angel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) vigorously rubs the bloom from the wings of the brisk, fresh, imaginative musical that ran on Broadway four years ago. Then it had bounce, charm, a good Rodgers & Hart score, and the electric presence of grave, ashen, graceful Vera Zorina, every man's idea of a down-to-earth angel. M.G.M.'s cineversion has the R. & H. melodies (ponderously played), Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, and a fantastically mutilated plot...