Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French scale of reckoning, a crise grave, which involves major issues, ranks one degree above a crise banale, which is a consequence of pure partisan fighting...
Oracle in Paris. As the realization that there was a majority against Bourgès-Maunoury but no majority for anyone else dawned on France, it became conceivable that what had begun as a crise grave* might end as a crise de régime, i.e., the ultimate crisis of the Fourth Republic, which would force a fundamental change in its structure...
...right out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. "I did not fancy myself as a haggard, rabid, avid randy dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful...
Southern moderates were critical of Eisenhower, but more so-and more noisily-in public than in private. "A grave and grievous mistake," said Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. ''Precipitous and unfortunate," added North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges. "I am the governor of a state where I don't intend for federal troops to ever march," throbbed Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, tears welling out of his eyes. "Law and order in Tennessee will be preserved for Tennesseans. Is a bayonet going to be the bookmark of Southern education...
...Arkansas trouble. There were two notable exceptions. Walter Lippmann of the Herald Tribune Syndicate insisted that Ike had "made a weak case" in his TV speech to the nation because he omitted the chronology of Faubus' folly. "It is necessary to say also," chided Lippmann, "that during this grave business he ought not to be away from Washington, but at the center of things where he can really keep himself informed and advised...