Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing you without the knowledge of any other person except Admiral King (who concurs) because we are approaching a grave dilemma in the political reactions of Congress regarding Pearl Harbor...
...Dewey locked the letter in his files, went back to his electioneering. Though he had known before that the U.S. had cracked the Jap code, had suspected that this information cast grave doubts on Franklin Roosevelt's role before Pearl Harbor, he held his tongue. The War Department's most valuable secret was kept out of the campaign...
...Habsburg cellars last week old skeletons rattled in three quarter time, and the legend that launched a score of novels, movies, plays and operettas tottered. If the voice from the chill Norwegian grave spoke true, then Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, did not die at Mayerling in a suicide pact with his young and lovely Baroness Maria Vetsera...
...contradictory voice from the grave was that of the Archduke Johann Nepomuck Salvator of Tuscany. When he died six months ago, his neighbors in Kristiansund knew him as Hugo Koehler, retired lithographer. But in his safe he left papers that Norwegian courts thought authentic. The papers said that Rudolf, in the lovers' hideaway at Mayerling, had accused Maria of gossiping about political intrigues. The little vixen raged back at him, bashed in his skull with a champagne bottle. Promptly Rudolf's valet, Josef Loschek, shot her dead...
Forty people who could not forget a charwoman gathered at her grave on the outskirts of Mexico City last week. In honor of the 14th anniversary of her death they sang, made speeches, and organized a society of her worshipful dupes...