Word: graved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru's relative continence in discussing other nations' foreign affairs was refreshing, but it was not mysterious. The truth is that India is in grave, potentially even catastrophic financial difficulties; and the only possible source of salvation is an immediate, large-scale U.S. loan. How much? To the New York Times's Henry R. Lieberman, Nehru confided last week: from $500 million to $600 million...
...party . . . Stalin did what was necessary. We were sincere in the respect we expressed for Stalin when we stood crying at his bier." However, "we have lost many honest and devoted people . . . who were defamed and who suffered innocently. How can it happen that Stalin committed such gross and grave mistakes? This is a complicated question, comrades." But for so complicated a question, Khrushchev suggested a simple answer : "Stalin's personal shortcomings were taken advantage of" by the wicked Beria and his pal Comrade Malenkov...
...touch and go," said Dr. Franklin Clark Fry. "I had grave doubts that we would be able to do it. But we have...
Seen superficially, Arthur Winner needs no more education. He is a successful lawyer in his 50s, a figure of Roman rectitude, a bald, grave patrician, sage and self-contained. In his middle-sized home town of Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...
...loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have I got my cons mixed?" He had a high old time with his waitress (Sarah Marshall) in a Greenwich Village spaghetti joint, enjoyed a good cry and a good talk "about everything from her cradle to my grave." Seeing things at last as they are "without the neon nimbus," he of course went home to a forgiving wife and a plain little moral: "Life itself gets a little dusty-even rusty. It used to shine all by itself. Now we have to do a little buffing and polishing...