Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three amazing days, Douglas MacArthur sat in the center of the stage to make his case against the foreign policy of his Commander in Chief. The issues were as grave as any in the nation's history, and as politically combustible, but witness and questioners responded with fairness and decorum. What might have been dangerous to the nation was not; in fact, the U.S. was given a chance, in a deadly earnest game of Questions & Answers, to appraise, with more facts than it ever had before, the difficult decisions to be taken...
Down to the Grave. Second most important Jewish prayer, says Bernstein, is the Kaddish, originally a hymn of praise to God, used especially in honoring the dead. The words of the Kaddish suggest that it was the basis of the Lord's Prayer: "Exalted and hallowed be the name of God throughout the world . . . May His kingdom come, His will be done...
...Angeles judge agreed that the grave of Showman Earl Carroll, in Forest Lawn cemetery, could be decorated with a new monument. He authorized the estate to pay $10,000 for a near-life-sized bronze statue of a winged nude, completed by Sculptor Adolf Alexander Weinman in 1915 and called Wings of Hope...
Robert L. Gold, representing the Liberal Union, urged an expanded Point Four program, but warned that the West is confronted with the grave threat of "Russian Stalinist imperialism," to which force or the threat of force is sometimes the only answer...
...previous conversations ... I have explained my objections to many features of the budget ... It fails to apportion fairly the burdens of expenditure as between different social classes. It is wrong because it is based upon a base of military expenditure in the coming year which is physically unobtainable without grave extravagance . . . wrong because it is the beginning of the destruction of those social services in which Labor has taken a special pride...