Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State, he condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in terms far stronger than the rest of the diplomatic world was prepared then to accept. As Secretary of War he has personally been guilty of no cocky bombast, has indulged no huggermugger secrecy, has, instead, been frank, grave, honest. And so his words last week deserved a hearing...
...fate of Kuala Lumpur, gateway to Singapore and rubber capital of the world, remained in doubt. Though it obviously was in grave peril from the Japanese thrust down from the Slim River, available reports implied that it was still in British hands...
...tubby physique, are flocking into civilian defense organizations so they can wear uniforms themselves. But oh, how wrong they are! The fair sex just don't seem to have been built for khaki. Those severe, blue-grey creations which would harass Mainbocher or Schiaparclli to an early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where they most oughtn't to be. Even the new be-bustled bathing suit doesn't render a beautiful lady as unattractive as one of those proto-masculine outfits which leaves her about as cuddly as a two-man tank...
...Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric. Even Stalin himself could no longer hold up the banner of the proletarian revolution as the hope of mankind. All he now holds is the strength of the Russian armies battling in a war that he long sneered at as "imperialistic...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill conferred (see p. 11), in Moscow, where Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wound up his talks with Premier Joseph Stalin, in Chungking, where the strategists of three nations met (see p. 24), in many a military and naval chart room across the world the same grave decisions were faced: at what points on the worldwide battlefront could the Allies best throw their strength? And how much strength could they throw...