Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Threatened with a potential lag in essential war production, grave-faced officials of WMC, WPB, Selective Service and Army & Navy met hurriedly last week in a Washington office. Their problem: to devise rapid ways & means of giving the nation a new "sense of urgency." The trouble was partly of their own making. For two full years the congenitally optimistic U.S. people had been soaking up the sunny predictions of official and semiofficial spokesmen. Samples...
...epitaph on a grave in Italy, U.S. doughboys read this definitive description of the career of Peggy, a British Army mule...
...crisis to strengthen the discredited monarchy. Few political parties wanted to share the onus of governing Italy under Allied control during an economic crisis. All were waiting for the north to be liberated. Meanwhile recurrent street fighting between monarchists and republicans -a new thing in Rome-was a grave portent...
Other British papers hinted that the Government might recall Sir Owen O'Malley, its Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile. As Sir Owen is in London, this would be somewhat like calling him from across the street. But it would be a grave blow to the London Poles, a loud hint to Russia that Britain no longer considered the Polish Government in Exile a responsible Government. In liberated Poland, demonstrators demanded immediate recognition of the Polish Committee of National Liberation...
Pope Pius XII spoke wise words: "In this grave moment radio can exercise the work of cohesion among the people, reconciliation and love among all nations, but in the hands of perverse men it can also transform itself into an instrument of hatred and ruin...