Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston Churchill, a prophet who has often been right in the past, told the House of Commons last week that the Korean situation is "very grave." He doubted that the Communists had ever had any "will to peace"; they had plainly used the truce talks to accumulate a formidable striking force. He gave figures on the enemy buildup (some of which were also given by General Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo); the enemy now has a million-man army ready to fight, 500 tanks and self-propelled guns, an 1,800-plane air force of which about...
...Panmunjom, North Korea's dapper, tireless Lieut. General Nam II returned to the truce table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...
...have printed it . . . had there been any doubt" about its authenticity. The explanation was not enough for the paper's top editorial writer on domestic affairs, Rémy Roure. Roure resigned because his bosses "did not exercise the most extreme prudence and reserve" in so grave a matter. Other staffers backed him up, demanded in the future Le Monde have its top staffers pass on all important copy before it is printed...
...Regulation W was buried, U.S. businessmen urged the Administration to inter the rest of the controls on business in the same grave. A majority of the Commerce Department's 166-man business advisory council told Secretary Charles Sawyer that the economy was moving into a buyers' market and that price & wage controls were no longer needed. "It is time to start working for decontrols," said Eastman Kodak's Treasurer Marion Folsom, chairman of Sawyer's committee. "Wage controls have broken down; there is no evidence of general inflationary pressure." It was put more simply by Council...
...outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...