Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats choose to hold the South at all costs by soft-pedaling FEPC and other New Deal measures hated in the South, they run a very grave risk of losing New York and California. On the other hand, if they try to make sure of New York-California by a hard-hitting New Deal program, they stand to lose a big piece of the South...
...grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained "slanderous allegations" designed "to discredit the reputation of the International Red Cross in the eyes of the world." This kind of discrediting, said the government, "constitutes a grave attack on the policy of neutrality of Switzerland and compromises, in consequence, the security of the country." If a court of inquiry finds criminal intent is present, Professor Bonnard can be sentenced to 20 years at hard labor...
...pastor never left Pittsburgh. To two generations of churchgoers, he has preached his same steady brand of orthodoxy, with the same grave eloquence. Sunday mornings and evenings, a good half of his 2,500-member congregation make their way downtown from outlying residential districts to hear him preach. On Tuesdays, as many as 600 local businessmen drop in at the First Church for his noon meetings (a cafeteria lunch and two short sermons...
When the Democrats convened, a TIME story said: "The Democratic Convention caused such a grave disturbance at a Cabinet meeting that the President was obliged to have the radio loudspeaker turned off. The din was too great to allow Secretarial deliberation" (TIME, July...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...