Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increased violence was not inevitable. The U.S. was not abandoning its grave concern for China's peaceful, stable future. It still held a powerful inducement to peace with the economic assistance it could offer and which China desperately needed. Above all, China needed U.S. friendship-as the U.S. needed China...
...White Paper, chocked with black news. Britain's position was "extremely serious." The U.S. and Canadian loans "only give us a short breathing space." The country was "still running into debt Abroad." In 1946 its imports exceeded exports by $1,312,000,000. Its manpower shortage was grave: 500,000 to 700,000 more workers were needed in export industries if the trade balance was to be attained...
...another proposal revealed the vicious circle of reasoning underlying the whole manpower shortage debate. When some repatriated Italian prisoners of war indicated that they would like to return to Britain and work on the farms, the semi-official objection was that Britain's food shortage was so grave that the nation could not take responsibility for feeding extra mouths. In fact, importation of foreign labor was political dynamite because labor's rank & file jealously opposed it. The alternative-a deep cut in the Armed Forces and Auxiliaries (1,510,000 men & women)-would mean a serious shrinkage...
...royal tomb, second largest and the oldest ever found, had been looted by grave robbers before the pyramids were started, but it still contained plenty of relics for modern archeologists. Crude hieroglyphics identified it as the tomb of Queen Mereneith, wife of Zer, second (or third) Pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty. Date: about...
...Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design, a memorial for her grave.* Adams tried to lose himself in the writing of his monumental History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and in a series of jaunts to the most outlandish parts of the world he could find...