Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State's presentation had been grave, cautious and deliberate. The reaction was in kind. In the Senate, no jingoistic ranters sawed the air. Only one Senator-Nevada's Republican George W. Malone -said publicly that he would vote against it. Most of the nation's editorialists gave their sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep...
...cost so much, and would interfere so greatly with what we have come to regard as normal living, that it is unacceptable. The only alternative is to accept a 'calculated risk'-the military euphemism for taking a chance . . . Absolute safety has never existed this side of the grave...
...series of drawings from official documents of the 29th-34th Congresses, by unidentified artists: scenes of camps and deserts, with the exquisite finish and the unearthliness of Dali's early work-a train of mules vanishing, single file, into the haze of the desert, ridden by grave, top-hatted emigrants; a mirage of tall minareted cities, floating on the horizon...
...abortion, smilingly gave Deliphene a handful of sleeping pills. When the pretty widow passed out, Martha directed Ray to do something about her. Ray got a .45-cal. pistol and shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...
...Protestants' lot has changed somewhat, according to Reporter Bigart, since the outbreaks of popular violence against them more than a year ago. In a 1947 pastoral letter, writes Bigart, Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, measured Protestantism against "atheistic and Soviet Communism" as being among "other grave dangers which perhaps are more to be feared because they inspire less horror." The van-dalistic raids on Protestant churches that followed simmered down last year, when the Spanish government began to clamp down more tightly than ever on Protestant activities...