Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cutting their output, thus threatening farm production. Last week, J. Harold Wilson, President of Britain's Board of Trade, told the House of Commons that the shortage was about to cripple British industry. "I am bound to tell the House," said Wilson, "that it presents a very grave picture indeed...
...characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
...path across the cotton field was under fire from the guns in the grave mounds...
...preceding Saturday the Crimson gridiron battalions had suffered a 46-0 rout at the hands of Army, a debacle so grave that solace could not be gained by writing it up, as Hitler's propagandists used to do with the German war reverses, as "a strategic retreat to prepared positions" or "an incredibly skillful disengagement from the enemy." This was 19 years...
...Unfortunate." The concern over the President's health and spirits had become almost international. London's grave Economist thought that Mr. Truman had been acting like "a fox terrier at bay, rather than a President guiding his nation through a crisis." Washington was shaking its head over Truman's latest tart remarks-directed this time against ex-President Hoover, whom he had invited to join in the appeal for grain for India. As he was leaving, Hoover told Truman: "I'm going to make a radio speech and criticize your foreign policy again." Snapped Truman...