Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the chamber hung an atmosphere of a Great Occasion, an air grave and chilling. Most of the speeches were set pieces, delivered from manuscript. Exchanges were sparse. The Administration's strategy -permitting the opposition orators to wear themselves out, unanswered-worked well. And from the start the isolationists knew the bill would pass without substantial amendment...
...names of ten members of the Board of Overseers are mentioned in the article, which implies that these men have told Conant what to say. A cartoon of the president, picturing him as digging a grave for American youth is also included...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...
...dropped way off; all the other bogey-bills had drawn much heavier mailbags. The House attention stayed on Sam Rayburn and on tall, balding Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.-who made the best House speech of the week, merely pleading for a unity of purpose in grave times...
Last week the Chinese High Command in bomb-scarred Chungking had grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...