Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels that, so long as this country has decided to engaged in an arms race, we must maintain our superiority as the only means to prevent war. Kistiakowsky insists that all his military work be done away from Harvard, for he regards government entrance into private institutions a grave danger...
GERMANY, where the Russian division "cannot be perpetuated without grave risks, for no great people will calmly accept mutilation...
...York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet guest at City Hall, visited the Stock Exchange and United Nations headquarters, and was feted at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner. On the way to Hyde Park to lay a wreath at the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Prince and his party got out for a stretch at Shrub Oak, Westchester, were routed by a woman who came flying out of a motel, crying: "You people get off here! Stop taking those pictures! If you don't, I'll call the police...
...heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius' Finlandia." But Tightpants is not present when it is performed in Carnegie Hall. Burned to death in a nightclub fire, he has joined Olga in the homelandia of a Wilkes-Barre grave...
...Certainly one is justified, and in many cases is duty bound, to make persons suffering serious hereditary diseases consider what grave responsibilities they are assuming toward themselves, toward the spouse and toward their offspring. This responsibility may perhaps become intolerable. But to advise against doing something is not to forbid it. There may be other motives, above all of a moral or personal character, that have such weight as to authorize people to contract and use matrimony even in circumstances that we have indicated...