Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross director in 1940, and was captured by the Japanese during World War II. After inheriting Mary's long-hoarded money, he said he hoped with it "in some small way" to help improve U.S. foreign relations. He also resolved to erect a monument on the grave of the recluse's mother. Unforgiving Mary Bullock Powers had left it unmarked for 37 years...
...grave fault with that method, said "Scotty" Reston, is that the negotiations are completed before the public knows about them, so that the "critic in the press . . . has to upset a whole series of applecarts if he wants to make any major change in the policy." What is needed, Reston said, is a working arrangement by which Government officials can tell responsible reporters the broad lines of their policy beforehand so that there can be "some objective discussion of the facts in public...
...proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided. For 30 minutes the Senate chamber was still as he spoke...
Brown, getting out the razor strop, wanted his colleagues to know that it hurt him more than it did Roosevelt. He was simply expressing the "grave concern among many of the friends of this fine young man over the fact that he is not here as much as they would like to see him." But the fact was, said he, that Roosevelt had only answered 60 out of 129 roll calls since last June; out of 65 important measures he had voted...
...three D's of living," said the University of Chicago's famed Physiologist Anton J. ("Ajax") Carlson on the eve of his 75th birthday, "are work, work, work from diaper days to death. The goal of the current philosophy of the welfare state-security from cradle to grave whether you work or not-is both unscientific and unobtainable...