Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your grave omission was not pointing out that the position of contributing editor carries no salary, no duties, and no responsibility for editorial policy. In the past 13 years, Frank and Mumford have visited the office seldom, contributed little to our pages. We hope they will still visit us, shall gladly print their contributions when they write things we feel are worth printing...
...citizens could agree on what that first loud blast of news from Philadelphia had said. But everybody knew he had heard something loud. The fight was close; it was dramatic; the issues were grave (see p. 10). And, like some carefully planned fireworks display that did not work out as it was supposed to, the whole show appealed to a U. S. sense of humor, with booms exploding ahead of time, crowds wandering off to watch a foot race as the well-rehearsed Fourth of July oration came to an unheard climax, experts puzzling over political fizzles, like kids trying...
...Dallas, Tex., on Flag Day, 15,000 Texans resolved for all help to the Allies except men & blood, applauded when the resolution's sponsor said: If this "leads to war, then we will meet that issue. ..." But when the grave faces bowed in prayer {see cut}, the refrain was: "Lead us not into war but into peace...
...through the fall of France with a clear conscience, awaking in time for the 8 a.m. radio newscast. For this moment he was prepared, as ever. Now was the time, at last, to jerk from his hat something bigger than a rabbit. Months ago, the President had pondered the grave new world, had brooded on the dread possibility of a United States of Germany which would have terrific economic striking power.* As usual, the President asked aides to submit suggestions. An adviser with a real passion for anonymity, working under Harry Hopkins and Adolf Berle, conceived a formula...
...have been thinking of those who have been fighting true to their old military traditions, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority. I also think of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war. I have given myself to France to better her situation at this grave hour...