Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under economic pressures, Japan should feel forced to accept political arrangements with the Communist mainland," said U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at Bangkok last fortnight, "that would surely have a grave effect upon the entire free world position in Asia. All of us know what it meant to combat Japan alone ... If there should be combined at any time under international Communism the power of Soviet Russia in Asia, of Communist China, and the industrial capability of Japan-if all three were a unit of force, then, I think, we must recognize that our position . . . would be extremely...
Luisito, as Uruguayans call Batlle Berres, and his fellow councilors will face grave problems right away. The country's wool is selling well, but its wheat must compete against other countries' surpluses, and its famous herds of cattle have been depleted by drought. The country's left-of-center, welfare-state laws provide subsidies for both wheat farmers and cattlemen, although the public debt is already $387 million-high for a country of only 2,500,000 people. Workers are feeling the pinch of inflation, with prices nearly 2½ times greater than in 1943. Strikes have...
...analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral bondage forging "undiscovered" Flemish masterpieces for a millionaire dealer in expensive fakes. This work drives him to the fringes of sanity and murder. Fleeing the U.S., he makes an obscurely redemptive pilgrimage to his mother's grave in Spain...
Science, speaking in its usual language of paradox, has spent most of the last century revealing terror in the tiny things of life. The germ theory of disease probably drove to the grave a lot of genteel old ladies ignored by the streptococcus. By the time mankind grew accustomed to bacillae, American physicists sent some explosive atoms to Hiroshima, giving the world a new source of frenzy. With his new Atoms for Peace, David O. Woodbury has at last sought out the scientists who are working with peaceable, tractable atoms, making significant discoveries that have largely escaped journalistic attention...
...Conservative Club expelled its vice-president, David B. Cole '55, from the Club Monday night for grave irresponsibility and bed faith...