Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are-and always have been-grave dissents from Marshall's view. Recently the gaps have widened, and arguments about the Fifth Amendment have extended from the lawyers to the public. Sample differences...
...radiation "consumers" (geneticists and physicians), the possible hazards of the atomic age were of grave concern. Even the most cheerful geneticists admitted that no certain "safe threshold" of radioactivity has yet been determined. Any increase in world radioactivity may upset the delicate balance in the number of damaging mutations that the human race can stand and cripple future generations. Said the AEC's John C. Bugher: "We are running a risk, but all life is a risk...
Tammany's new public-relations approach may either be sincere or "sincere"-but it is certainly the reverse of the old easy, open cynicism. There have been no grave city political scandals involving De Sapio's men, and until there are, fairness requires the assumption that things are better in City Hall-although experience whispers a caution against a conclusion that graft has stopped. As for municipal services, New York is still far behind many other cities, but its filthy, potholed streets and clumsy police may be blamed as much on an apathetic citizenry as on Tammany Hall...
...they've shifted father's grave...
...only compositions which will bear thinking of for more than half an hour are those which require an intimate acquaintance for at least ten years for their critical mastery." Critic Shaw followed a simple but infinitely cunning line: he discussed music not as an art but as a grave moral problem, studied musicians precisely as a social reformer studies dangerous delinquents. A bad performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni seemed every bit as wicked to Shaw as a real-life Don Juan seems to a headmistress. "I hate performers who debase great works of art," he summed...