Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of its citizens against the conduct and acts of others. The right of life is no less than the right to work and earn a livelihood . . . A nation which must call upon every man and woman, regardless of race or religion, to protect it in time of grave crisis should secure to each of its citizens the right equally with all men to earn a livelihood . . . What we are doing here is trying to solve rationally a serious national problem...
Relief workers in rural Greece after the war found that Greek peasants had a horror of canned food. Little by little, through persuasion and example, the peasant prejudice was worn down. Last week, however, it stood in grave danger of returning in full force. After long argument, agents of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund had succeeded in persuading two expectant mothers in the town of Polykastron to try some canned powdered milk. Shortly after trying it, both mothers gave birth on the same day to twins, the first to be born in Polykastron in ten years...
...this week the river level appeared to be stabilizing although the danger was still grave. As relief operations gathered momentum, Winnipeggers had an urgent question: how could future floods be prevented? Flood experts had a grim reply: they probably cannot. The cost of permanent diking would be prohibitive, and in any case it might be an engineering impossibility in the flat Red River valley. Once in 25, 50 or 100 years, the valley would probably have to take...
...congressional bills overlooked was that many a small businessman did not want Government help of the kind they proposed. Small businessmen wanted tax relief to encourage risk capital investment. In a resolution approved by its 600,000 members, the Conference of American Small Business Organizations said: "There exists grave danger to our economy [in] the rapidly increasing Government loans and guarantees. These funds could better be used to help balance our budget and reduce our Government debt. Revision of tax laws can afford better benefits to all small business than credit relief or subsidies...
Last week to the grave in Jackson, Tenn. of John Luther Jones, folk hero of U.S. railroading, went fans from far & wide. The occasion: the 50th anniversary of the murky night when "Casey" Jones* died with his hand on the brake of the Illinois Central's crack Cannonball Express as it plowed into a freight train at Vaughan, Miss...