Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgive you your grave error...
...walkout, Peking applauded it, ridiculing the world organization as "a vile place for a few powers to share the spoils." In any case, the objectives of Sukarno and Mao Tse-tung on Malaysia clearly converge: both want the downfall of its pro-West regime-a prospect that holds grave political and strategic implications for the West...
...coup de grâce to the West's remaining position in all of Asia. The next target might well be the Philippines. Japan would be put under serious new pressure. And the psychological shock waves in Africa and the Latin American countries would be very grave indeed...
Such lines are poetry only by courtesy; they justify Robert Graves's sardonic gibe: "What I like most about Eliot is that though one of his two hearts, the poetic one, has died and been given a separate funeral . . . he continues to visit the grave wistfully, and lay flowers on it." But Eliot could still strike off at will his unique amalgam of silver and sudden brimstone...
...grave fears about our future. I wasn't sure how successful I would be pulling the divergent factions of the nation together and trying to unite everybody in order to get the confidence of the people and secure the respect of the world...