Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than an election platform. It was the base of the President's tremendous moral authority in the nation and the world. The code-and the authority-could be no more lustrous than the record of the chief enforcement officer, and in violating it Sherman Adams had committed a grave impropriety...
Once upon a time, and a very leisurely time it was, a novel resembled a sheaf of obituary notices; it took various characters from the cradle to the grave and firmly left them there. Nowadays, when a novel may resemble anything from an unrhymed poem to an unprintable pamphlet or an analyst's case book, there is something refreshing about this old-style trilogy (its component novels were published in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but this is the first U.S. publication of all three in a package). Most remarkable fact about this work: Novelist...
...atomic-weapons tests, the 250-member General Board, policymaking body of the Protestant National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., called upon the U.S. Government last week to launch an information program that would enable U.S. citizens to make up their own minds. "There is grave apprehension," said a board statement, "that the Government has made decisions . . . without due regard for the necessity of public understanding." In a nine-point program on the control of space and armaments, the board warned that "the risks of revealing secrets must be weighed boldly against the advantage of revealing truths...
...clergymen, two theologians and five medical men) noted in a preliminary report that "there is the danger in the tense emotional atmosphere of large healing missions of a concentration on the individual healer rather than on God as the source of wholeness . . . Nevertheless, we believe that however many or grave the dangers in the practice of a ministry of healing, there is the greater danger of our limiting the power of God by our fear and timidity, and of our failing to fulfill our Lord's own concern for the well-being and harmony of the whole personality...
...eyed from exhaustion. General Motors' chunky Vice President Louis G. Seaton stomped out of a 14½-hour bargaining session with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther shortly after one midnight last week and issued a grave statement. For the first time, said Seaton, the nation's biggest manufacturer and its second biggest union would have to work together without a contract because it was "impossible" to agree...