Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was a deceptively artless poetry of common speech. But behind the apparent artlessness was a cracker-barrel Socrates with a sense of humor-a pawky humor that was partly serious when it seemed most irreverent, gently mocking when it seemed most grave...
Churchill said: "The very grave statement to which we have just listened . . . will make it necessary for us to place a motion on the order paper tonight regretting that at this most critical period in our national safety and affairs abroad we should be, by this act of the government, plunged into the fiercest party controversy at home...
Police officials have welcomed the University's effort to alleviate what they term the "grave" Cambridge parking problem. "We'll be able to send summonses directly to their rooms now," a police spokesman said yesterday, "and if they're not registered with the University, we'll really get 'em when we catch up to them...
...Stalin and Molotov are dead, but [Andrei] Vishinsky is getting rich out of his memoirs being published in several American newspapers-his theme being, of course, 'I Was Always Secretly a Menshevik.' " The Russian atom bomb meant for the Gary, Ind. steel mills "was dropped by grave mischance right on the Chicago Tribune Tower . . . Colonel Robert R. McCormick, warned in time, was safe in his underground shelter; but he emerged too soon, in confidence that no European radiations could harm the hero of Cantigny, and disintegrated within two weeks...
...hued Matt Neely arose. On Friday, he announced in his best stumping voice, the Young Democratic Club of West Virginia would be holding a rally. He wanted to be there. "In my opinion," he declaimed, "except the saving of immortal souls, the most important thing this side of the grave to the people of the world is the success of the Democratic Party in the approaching election. The success of the Democratic Party in the nation is largely dependent upon its success in West Virginia." (Six House, no Senate seats are at stake.) In short, Matt Neely was going...