Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising Tide. As Commonwealth ministers from the West Indies and Africa flew hastily into London to express "grave concern" over the continuing riots, the British government seemed to be more than ever at a loss just what to do about it. Home Secretary R. A. Butler, speaking to a Conservative rally at Saffron Waiden, carefully avoided committing himself to anything. "It has always been the right of British citizenship to come in and out of the mother country at will, and it will need considerable force of argument to alter this policy," he said. On the other hand, Butler noted...
...raised grave doubts whether it will permit the 707 to operate, except under such restrictions that would make the flights lose money. The official reason for the Port Authority's stand: jet noise...
...promises never to be the same again after the young wife's blue lace girdle turns up among the lost-and-found items of an all-night country club bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story in the book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain...
Thirteen years and 113 announced nuclear and thermonuclear blasts after the first fateful mushroom cloud at Alamogordo, N. Mex., the U.S. committed itself to a grave decision. President Dwight Eisenhower, appearing before TV and newsreel cameras in Washington, announced that the U.S. was ready to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests for one year effective Oct. 31. The President attached two major conditions. He required that 1) the U.S.S.R. agree to begin political talks by Oct. 31, aimed at setting up a world network of posts equipped to detect nuclear explosions, presumably in Red China as well as the U.S.S.R...
...that we have a Government of laws and not of men. We believe that any study of recent decisions of the Supreme Court will raise at least considerable doubt as to the validity of that boast . . . Frequent differences and occasional overrulings of prior decisions in constitutional cases cause us grave concern as to whether individual views of the members of the court [on] what is wise or desirable do not unconsciously override a more dispassionate consideration of what is or is not constitutionally warranted...