Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderate leaders would step forward to negotiate. It did not. Labor Party leaders now insisted that Makarios must be brought back and a settlement negotiated. In a letter to the London Observer, Elder Statesman Earl Attlee wrote: "I believe that the government now realize that they have made a grave error in deporting the Archbishop, but will not admit it ... Any reading of history would have told the government that when discussions on constitutional reform break down, and when the accredited leaders of a nationalist movement are deported or imprisoned, the result is always a resort to violence. Leadership passes...
...slander of provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism and "grave mental depression...
Furry appeared twice before Congressional committees in February and March of 1953. At both he cited the Fifth Amendment to all questions. The Corporation, after investigation, found Furry guilty of "grave misconduct" for telling a government investigator that he did not believe a former Communist associate had been a Communist...
...Later on Hitler shook a clenched fist at us. He is in his grave now. Is it not time that we become more intelligent and not shake our fists at each other? As a matter of fact, fist fighting requires much less brains than trading...
...cold concrete of the great bunker, the whited sepulcher of National Socialism, the moviegoer has the vivid sensation, for most of two hours, that he is buried alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped...