Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spade Aid. In Memphis, local grave diggers organized, joined the C.I.O. canners and packers union...
...bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts, dealers would not promise deliveries, and in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard was pleading in vain for priorities for farm machinery...
Behind the darkened windows of his official residence, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, grave-faced beyond his habit, looked at the frowning, worried men of his Cabinet. He told them that the Emperor had accepted their resignation. Then they departed. They, too, were thoughtful. This, they knew, was the end of Japan's effort to compromise with destiny...
...were ripped out of their frame house, blown 500 feet to death, their bodies stripped of clothing. Doorjamb of the Lucas house, still bearing the small metal numerals of the address, was torn from the rest of the wreckage, jammed upright in the ground near Mrs. Lucas, like a grave marker...
...Whereas we, as students, recognize that Hitlerism is abhorrent to the whole spirit of American education and constitutes a grave and imminent danger to the national security of the United States...