Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this background the President last week addressed the world. In a light grey seersucker suit, a mourning-armband for his mother on his sleeve, the President spoke in a low, grave tone, without histrionics, with little dramatic emphasis. But his words were hammer blows...
Carefully placing the head in the wash basin, Chen's wife soaked it in alcohol and took it back to her village. There she sewed it to the neck and buried body and head. Now Chen and his head rest in a grave no different from thousands of others that dot the green hills of China...
...nations. Side by side in front of the new War Ministry in Rio de Janeiro stood President Getulio Dornellas Vargas and his Minister of War, General Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
...Snag: In the grave...
...lack of training officers was so grave that in 1917 President Lowell reququested the French government to send some of its disabled officers to this country to help with the teaching of the "latest methods of warfare...