Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the wonderfully grave and cockeyed air that the late Ben Turpin might have put on to play Young Doctor Kildare, the Chicago Tribune offered the U.S. a cure for all its troubles. The prescription was described in an editorial last week entitled: "How Truman Might Be Replaced...
...field by 1951's end, and another 20 by 1952's end. By mobilizing its industry in earnest, it could contribute 5,000 fighter planes within two years. It could, in fact, keep a million men under arms without crippling its economy or imposing any grave hardship on its people...
...watched as 31 black or white hearses (black for men and older boys, white for the plane's stewardess and the younger boys) moved slowly out of the school grounds toward the cemeteries. In the bright sunlight at the Southern General cemetery, not far from the flower-heaped grave of Venezuela's murdered President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, twelve coffins were lowered into one large grave, others into family plots. Then, as the parents turned away to their cheerless Christmas, Padre Vélaz flew back to the classrooms of the Colegio...
...grave error," writes Dr. Bloss, looking back on his own half-century of obstetrical practice, for the doctor "to permit the patient to feel that he is not giving serious and considered thought to her disturbing problems." The scientific approach is all very well, thinks Dr. Bloss but just as important are "a kind heart, an understanding experience, and something approaching at least a speaking acquaintanceship with the Almighty. One of the most important accomplishments of the obstetrician," Bloss concludes, "is his ability to guide the patient so that she shall approach the time of her delivery unafraid...
...grave that the good soldier's best was retreat, it seemed high time for "the works" at home. This week Harry Truman seemed to agree, summoned his economic advisers and told them to get to work on a price-and wage-control order even though they had no adequate machinery to enforce it properly. Then the President sent out a call for congressional leaders of both parties to meet at midweek for a conference "concerning the proclaiming of a national emergency and related matters...