Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. He swam in it, fixed Soviet trade domination over it and turned the Danube conference into a thoroughfare for Soviet propaganda. He was able to steal the show because the Western powers missed a tailor-made chance to unfold point by point Russia's responsibility for the grave economic plight of her satellites...
...Grave Decision. Sammartino and his supporters then marched off to Radical Party headquarters in the Calle Tucumán. There all 42 Radical deputies handed in their resignations from Congress. This week a party convention will act on them. The party's decision will be a grave one. The Senate is already 100% Peronista. Should the party reject the resignations, thus keep alive political opposition in the Perón-dominated Chamber? Or should it accept, hoping somehow to force a crisis that would embarrass...
...delaying action"; it showed that the Kremlin was not willing that the battle of Berlin should play itself out in the strong-arm terms of Western airlift v. Soviet blockade. It helped to dispel, or at least palliate, a war scare in London, where Foreign Minister Bevin had gravely briefed a grave House of Commons. In answer to a question from Winston Churchill, Mr. Bevin said that the demobilization of 20,000 men a month from the British armed forces could be stopped, and probably would...
...Press hovers over its readers from cradle to grave, enrolls them in its "Toddlers' Club" as infants, gives free golden wedding parties for them in their old age. It counsels its readers, consoles them and fights their civic battles so well that, like Reader Harriger, they regard it as an old friend rather than a commercial enterprise...
...Largo has one grave weakness. Through the thinnest possible mask of melodrama, it is trying to speak to everyone in the postwar world who is disheartened; to show how a brave and intelligent man can and must regain reasons for living and for fighting. In this admirable attempt, it succeeds only part way. It may be that gangsters simply cannot be made to symbolize enough...