Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman was in such bad political shape that his appeal would make little difference. At any rate, he got a quick, political answer from Carroll Reece: "I am inclined to agree with Mr. Truman's statement . . . at least to the extent that the country does face a grave emergency, which emergency is the Truman Administration...
...cheers. After all, rich Averell Harriman had some acquaintance with business (Union Pacific Railroad, Wall Street, etc.) even if it had been largely in the coupon-clipping area. He had been at most of the major international conferences from the Atlantic Charter meeting to Potsdam and Paris. He had grave doubts about "Russian cooperation," and he strongly backed Jimmy Byrnes's "get tough" policy...
...wave of protests hit Washington. Riding the wave was a formidable figure: John L. Lewis. He posed a formidable dilemma: his coal miners could not work on "cereals and vegetables" and there was "grave unrest" among them. Meat-famished miners had walked out of five collieries in Virginia. Touring a mine area in West Virginia, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug agreed with Lewis that miners must have more meat...
...High prices, goods scarcities, and starvation wages might be having popular repercussions. For a fortnight there have been rumors of unrest in Russia, especially in the Ural region. Last week TIME learned from an informed source that riots in the Ukraine are "grave...
Marshal Tito struck directly at the only organized force left in Yugoslavia with the power to criticize his dictatorship. Into jail he clapped grave, ascetic Dr. Aloysius Stepinac, 48, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia, and twelve Catholic priests. The charge: crimes against the people...