Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Ives: "I doubt that it is necessary to convince the American people that they are now beset by a very grave crisis, in which our future freedom and freedom everywhere is at stake . . . There can be no question of choice between acceptance of limited governmental regulation and control-on a temporary basis-by honest-to-goodness Americans, and the possible alternative of permanent and absolute control administered by a Soviet Commissar...
...parade when the 20th Infantry Battalion of the Marine Corps reserve left Oklahoma City last week. "They're more interested in being with their families the last few hours," explained an officer. Veterans of Oklahoma's veteran 45th National Guard Division, called up last week, were as grave. Said 1st Lieut. Pendelton Woods: "Looks like we might all get in it anyway and I'd rather go with people I know. I wish we'd never got involved in this, but it's too late...
Peace or War? Then Malik virtually served an ultimatum. If the U.N. persists in "illegal" decisions on Korea (i.e., any decision not agreed to by Red Russia, Red China or Red Korea), grave consequences would follow. "The issue," he blustered, "is one of peace...
After Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell, his face grave, had reported that Britain's present defenses fall "a long way short of requirements," Parliament approved a defense budget increase of ?100 million ($280 million). This brought defense spending to ?880 million, about one quarter of the entire budget. The new money will be spent on a reserve of jet fighter planes, reconditioning Britain's reserve of 6,000 tanks, equipping the Royal Navy with anti-submarine devices, new antitank and antiaircraft guns, and radar predictors...
...committed to world domination, that Stalin is letting his Communist parties throughout the world carry the ball for him, that patterns of conquest have been laid down for most of the world's areas. Unlike most nowadays, he thinks that a Truman-Stalin talk "can settle the grave controversies between the U.S.S.R...