Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, a distinguished British elder statesman rose to address the Foreign Policy Association. As wartime ambassador to Washington, Lord Halifax had been entrusted by Winston Churchill with a crucial job in building wartime cooperation between the U.S. and Britain. Halifax, now 70, spoke with grave pride of "the close companionship, in peace as in war, of your people and mine...
...They Are Grave and Fatalistic...
...Hecklers. Despite the lack of surface dramatics, probably 85% of the electorate would go to the polls this Thursday (even presidential elections only get out about 60% of the U.S. vote). Political meetings held in school classrooms and in between shifts at cotton mills and shipyards were packed with grave, attentive audiences, pressing and persistent in their questioning, and sometimes skillful in heckling. Tories talked mostly about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned...
...Compulsory lessons in Spanish for all employees who do not know the language. Housing, schools, hospitals and cradle-to-grave welfare measures for all employees...
...hundred bands blared. The yells of 70,000 partisans volleyed and thundered across Mexico City's Olympic stadium. When the tumult died down, a small man spoke into the mike. "Accepting the candidacy of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), I understand fully the grave responsibility of this nomination," said Adolfo Ruiz Cort...