Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely a bad joke, and to say that the government runs itself without a Premier. But with the war hotting up in Indo-China, with a budget crisis at home, and with parliamentary decisions waiting to be made on NATO and the European Army, the pavane is in grave danger of becoming a danse macabre...
...Rescue. In the early afternoon, with the storm still rising and his ship sodden under his feet, Captain Carlsen sent an SOS: ENCOUNTERING SEVERE HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with...
...Tags. Korean farmers, who in winter go into the hills and woods for firewood, have been a great help. The G.R.S. drops leaflets from planes asking Koreans for information. Last week a searching crew, following up a leaflet drop, was led by a white-robed farmer to a hillside grave, from which the searchers recovered a moldering body-obviously an American killed early in the war. There were no dog tags. The farmer said he had given them to his six-year-old daughter. She, in turn, tearfully pleaded that she had lost them. The sergeant in charge...
...drew to a close this week, Secretary of State Dean Acheson cast up his accounts for the year and looked ahead to 1952. The best he could offer was a small, tentative note of optimism qualified by a grave warning: "It seems to me ... that we are better off than we were a year ago . . . But there are no grounds for complacency . . . The outcome in the contest between a better future and a return to the Dark Ages is still undetermined...
...present in all its glory is Belloc's great range of tone-a diversity of poetic styles that travel all the way from nimble, sarcastic diatribes against the faults of "us poor hobbling, polyktonous and betempted wretches of men" to what his friend Baring described as "grave prose like the mellow tones of a beautifully played cello...