Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago-Swedish military cooperation with the Western powers. In Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer to die on our feet rather than live on our knees...
Many Congressmen had grave doubts about the wisdom of lowering taxes when nobody knew how many billions of dollars might be needed for the insecure international future. But there was no doubt that the people wanted an income-tax cut. And there was never any doubt, in an election year, that the Republican-dominated Congress meant to give it to them...
...swell" of the Victorian era, whose heroic snobbery found its reward-and its doom-in the friendship of that nearly perpetual Prince of Wales who eventually became Edward VII. The story of Sir Christopher Sykes resembles a tale by Max Beerbohm, with this difference: the writer's grave pleasure in his subject never gets out of hand into fantasy...
Republican leaders in Congress decided last week that the grave state of world affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture...
...Genius has its place," Sheets adds. "It stimulates the rest of us and it has raised the general prices of art. But most artists make a grave error when they try to imitate the peculiar ways of geniuses-longhaired and dreaming...