Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain fell, a sleety, chilling March drizzle. Up the green slopes of Arlington Cemetery rolled a black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself...
...Polish Government in London for the second time in a month appealed to Britain and the U.S. The Polish Home Army (which is loyal to the London Poles) had fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government...
...rise in public. Those below could not notice, but those on the portico could see what a supreme effort it takes to hoist himself up. He rose. Spurning a cape offered by his son James, he walked to the black podium, bareheaded and in a blue suit. He was grave and solemn. His big shoulders and his suntanned face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood 3,000 more. The President gazed at the crowd...
This action did not mean that the 500 serious-minded clerics and laymen assembled in Cleveland liked everything about the Dumbarton Oaks plan as it now stands. They had some grave objections, but they decided that since Dumbarton Oaks is all there is, better something than nothing. Said the president of the Federal Council, New York's Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam...
Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...