Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picture. More & more, voters are aware that the U.S. long-run position in the world has deteriorated and is in grave danger of further deterioration, especially in Asia and the Middle East. The Korean deadlock is a symbol of the Administration's inability to make real headway in resolving the world crisis. An Administration which will not admit its past calamitous mistakes (e.g., China) cannot set vigorously about retrieving those mistakes...
What did Dulles mean by "power of decision," a newsman wanted to know. Said Dulles: "I do not believe anyone without past experience in making grave decisions can all of a sudden be qualified to make the type of grave decision that is going to be required in this twilight zone between war & peace. General Eisenhower, as a result of his experience, has developed and demonstrated that capacity. It is at least highly problematic whether Governor Stevenson has the capacity...
Backbencher Up. "I beg the government," said bouncy Backbencher Robert Boothby, who is a Tory star on TV political panels, "to stop talking about alerts and alarms and grave situations and trap doors and new presentations; and then, when the markets of the world have been shaken and everybody is in a state of tension and the House of Commons is assembled for a great economic debate . . . nothing very much happens. Send for us when you really have got something...
Winston Churchill's cabinet employed everything but billboard posters to ballyhoo the show in advance. "We are going to have a two days' debate," announced the Prime Minister, "at which very grave and far-reaching matters affecting every branch of our national life . . ." will be discussed. The cabinet met for several days in emergency session; newsmen collected hint after hint that the Conservatives, after nine unhappy months back in power, had at last hammered out a tough and effective economic policy for Great Britain...
...college professor (Clifton Webb), who was once a silent screen ham, rated second in popularity only to "some stupid police dog." When his old movies suddenly become popular on television, embarrassed Professor Webb sues to keep them from being shown. "It's like exhuming a man from his grave," he argues. But the ending is a happy one: Webb winds up in Hollywood with a talking picture contract that bars police dogs from the casts of his movies...