Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being rushed off before they had finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan might cut off the troops in Korea and touch off World War III. But these and similar grave possibilities, so real to the Pentagon, gave Americans no acute sense of clear and present danger...
...there is pain, Alvarez believes in giving drugs to the dying patient with the utmost generosity. What if he does become addicted? It will make no difference in his grave. Moreover, naked suffering brings on death more quickly than morphine and other analgesics...
This week a grave loss, long foreseen but hardly realized, befalls the University of Chicago's Lying-in Hospital: Birthroom Supervisor Mabel C. Carmon, 68, most famed obstetrical nurse in the U.S., is going to retire. In her 44 years as a birthroom supervisor, Nurse Carmon has taught obstetrics to 6,864 student nurses, has heard the first indignant cries of 104,988 babies...
Growing Pains. But Israel has grave economic problems. From 1919 to 1948 the number of Jews increased tenfold to 650,000, has nearly doubled in the last three years. The result is one of the world's worst housing shortages (an average of 2.7 persons per room), and stratospheric inflation, only recently halted by price controls, rationing and a rigid austerity. In the next three years, the government expects the population to jump another 50%. Nevertheless, with the new capital, Israel hopes to keep production in pace with still growing demand...
First, it is imperative that a plebescite be held among the natives of the region, including the minority group in K-entry. This is no time to be governed by a cold hand from the grave, by the ukases of Housemasters, or by the passions of militant Rabbits or adamant Puritans...