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Word: gravely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...miles from Durban where he will help with the manual labor.* A switch on the real-life story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. Mortally wounded by Jap gunfire on the bridge of his submarine, Gilmore ordered his men to "Take her down!", rode to a hero's grave to save his craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...believe that the only large-scale support for UMT comes from a military officialdom, whose motive, consciously or unconsciously, is to increase its size, budget, permanency, prestige, and power. There is a grave danger to democracy when an official group, claiming the indispensability of its program to the national welfare, is so readily believed. David Drake '52 Undergraduate co-chairman Peace Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.M.S. AGAIN | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

...players have given them faultless renditions. Nigel Patrick, who as Mrs. Crocker-Harris' lover does most of the page-turning, Wilfrid Hyde White as the suave old headmaster, and Brian Smith as a student who wants to pity and like "the Crock," are particularly good. But Michael Red-grave in the leading role is the star in every way. His portrayal of a man who has turned all his frustrations against himself to satisfy his wife's characterization of him and has sought refuge in the most utter degradation of his spirit is truly exciting, Jean Kent, as his wife...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Browning Version | 1/29/1952 | See Source »

...never set foot on non-Communist soil, never been known to speak to Western newspapermen or Western diplomats. In the few speeches comrade Malenkov has made for public consumption, perhaps the most memorable line is: "Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear Georgy | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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