Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they considered the odds, when they learned that the Yugoslavs could not help the Greeks unless the Turks did and the Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...
...period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles was to be his successor...
Speaking to newsmen at the National Press Club in Washington "with no light heart," Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared: "Only once before in our national existence [in 1775] has as grave a danger from without threatened this nation as the danger which looms today on the international horizon...
...imports ?50,000,000 ($200,000,000). That such enormous quantities of goods still moved in & out of British ports, long since "rendered use less" according to the propaganda of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, was a great military triumph. But on the economic battlefield it was grave that Britain's adverse balance has risen from ?27,000,000 ($108,000,000) per month...
...Troy, N. Y., police found a fresh grave marked: "Boy Buried Here Sept. 14, 1940." Alarmed, they dug in, unearthed a dead puppy. Name...