Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stunned U.S. listened intently to the President's denunciation of the ". . . date which will live in infamy," to his solemn statement ". . . our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger," his confident conclusion: "We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help...
...most states, abortion is justified only to save the life of the mother and, because rubella cannot always be clearly diagnosed, the practice might easily be abused. But few progressive doctors would deny the need for grave measures. Australian statistics had shown that if a mother contracted the disease within the first six weeks of pregnancy, the chance of the fetus being deformed was almost 100%; if in the second six weeks, about 50%. Dr. Bass, while stressing that Australian statistics could not be applied to the rest of the world, reported that in seven cases he had observed recently...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
...Grave charges may be leveled against the United Nations, and more especially against the big four who dominate it. Overemphasis has been placed on the urgency of patching up the local sore spots of a still unhealthy world. The real cures to be derived from settlement of the war and active promotion of the peace are strangely neglected. On May first, the Peace Conference is scheduled to begin, and we suddenly realize that not one real treaty agreement has been reached. With bright optimism the Big Four foreign ministers announce plans to meet on April 25th, allowing five days...
...city of Munich, a few days after the Reichstag Fire, six grave men held a meeting. They were the owners of, and chief contributors to, Germany's famous political-satirical magazine-the weekly Simplicissimus, whose biting, brilliant cartoons had ridiculed human stupidity since 1896. Now, the owners of ' Simpl" had met to find an answer to the gravest question human stupidity had ever put to them: "What shall we do when here, too, the Nazis take over?" Simplicissimus' founder, stalwart Thomas Theodor Heine, put the reply calmly: "One simply has to go into exile-pauper fashion...