Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors advised, however, that this menace is coupled with the grave danger to civil liberties in methods that may be used to meet the threat...
...officers of instruction are subject to removal by the Corporation only for grave misconduct or neglect of duty." Statutes of Harvard University, Section...
...questioned him: that U-977 had carried Hitler to some South American hideaway. Schaeffer eventually convinced them it had not. The legend that Hitler is still alive annoys Schaeffer. Its danger, he feels, is that Germans may believe it and sit back "waiting for ghosts to return from the grave to do their work for them...
Those of the audience who were on stage to attest the honesty of Bey's performance spent the ten minutes of his "airless interment" accusing the manager of fraud. He replied that they were all "unbelievers," and when Bey "returned from the grave" and distributed talismans to "ward of evil," the manager's epithet was quite valid. Those who saw the performance from the stage went away unbelieving...
...talked blockade to the committee, said Short, and without recommending a course of action had given the opinion that blockade of China's coastline was feasible. "Like all military people in the Far East," said Short, "he didn't think a blockade would result in any grave danger of enlarging the war." Short said that Eisenhower was "listening" to Radford's reports, added that Congress would support a blockade order...