Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while strongly supporting it, Mansfield made no extravagant claims about what the treaty might achieve. Said he: "Do not look for miracles from this treaty. There are none. This nation, the Soviet Union, and the world are destined to live for a long time with feet dangling over the grave that beckons to the human civilization which is our common heritage. Against that immense void of darkness, this treaty is a feeble candle. It is a flicker of light where there has been no light." When he finished, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois walked across the aisle...
...said Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, "the treaty is not in the best interests of our national security." Said Admiral Arthur Radford: "I join with many of my former colleagues in expressing deep concern for our future security." Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, former Chief of Naval Operations, expressed "grave misgivings as to whether this will be a step toward peace...
...grave shortage of grouse," groused Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 64, after bagging a paltry 28 on the first day of his shoot on the moors of Yorkshire. A jinx? Unlikely, even though the P.M. had changed his hunting suit for the first time in 36 years. The old coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, had given out. But even the wiliest grouse could not have detected the change. The new coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, were nearly identical to the rig he bought in 1927. "I believe that...
...hard to argue with new President Fernando Belaúnde Terry's assessment of Peru's prospects as presented to Congress last week by his Premier: "The grave problems of our country are caused chiefly by low production levels, unjust distribution of wealth and income, the challenge of difficult and abrupt geography that hinders the development of our resources." It was just as hard to find fault with the aspirations of the program Belaúnde proposed to put things right...
...meeting in Baltimore this month, top school officials from Northern cities gathered to talk over a grave and insistent problem: mounting Negro pressure against de facto school segregation. Conspicuously absent was a big-city educator who is acutely beset with segregation difficulties-Chicago's School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis...