Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the consequences of Rhodesia's long threatened "Unilateral Declaration of Independence" were so potentially grave that the game of bluff went on. In Salisbury, Smith postponed for a day his Cabinet's decision on U.D.I. At last, he claimed it was finally made, but refused to announce what it was. Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw...
...Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate-or, as one exhortation puts it, "maintain"-la langue fran...
...examiners have been stopped cold in their effort to get Negroes registered. In those states, says the Government, local courts have simply kept Negroes off the voting rolls on the ground that the new federal law is an unconstitutional infringement on state power to regulate-elections. To end this "grave frustration," the Government seeks a swift Supreme Court decision- hopefully before the South's coming spring primaries. Before that happens, the court must accept the case...
Beyond Pluto. Though Ikeya-Seki is the fourth new comet to be discovered this year, and there are some 1,700 already on record, astronomers are still not sure exactly what comets consist of. For centuries they were objects of excitement and superstition, often feared as precursors of grave and cataclysmic events. Today some astronomers speculate that comets are the debris flung off by larger planets out beyond the earth. The most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud...
...vote." It was civil rights that gave Nixon trouble in 1960, and it could give him trouble in another national campaign. "We must not compromise on our national civil rights stand [now a strong one]," he proclaimed automatically, but then gave me a harsh stare and scolded, "I have grave questions about the current civil rights leadership...