Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing has brought this home. Some 500,000 North Vietnamese have been tied up rebuilding roads and bridges and keeping communications lines open. Another 200,000 are manning antiaircraft batteries, and a further 200,000 coolies are occupied in taking stuff to the South. This has created grave inroads into the manpower of the country. There is fear about sabotaging of plants and the spreading of defeatist rumors...
...Washington, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson appealed to the editors of the Washington Post to halt their badgering of the ex-colonels about stepping aside in favor of an early return to "constitutional democracy." Wrote Acheson: "Greeks both ancient and modern have had grave trouble when they experimented with nonauthoritarian rule. Certainly no friend of Greece would wish to see her return to the 'constitution government' of two Pa-pandreous, the old fool and the young rascal...
Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
...would be a grave mistake to underrate the attitude of the public as to the inviolability of the body. Doubtless in many cases this is based upon religious beliefs concerning the resurrection of the body. The Roman Catholics and strict Orthodox Jews oppose cremation; but this feeling about the body is prevalent in some atheistic countries...
...letter was formulated at an SDS general membership meeting on Thursday night. Dyen said he expects the challenge to be turned down. "The administrators have some undemocratic notions about dignity of office and respectability and will probably have some grave reservations about debating students," said Dyen. "I think they would lose the debate," he added...