Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a judgment is part of an administrative, not a judicial, process. Nevertheless, grave injustice can result when this process is mismanaged. The outcry over the case of Wolf Ladejinsky (TIME, Jan. 3) shows that the nation's ethical sense is not satisfied by the statement that "all doubt must be resolved in favor of the Government...
Most of Mendes-France's important actions during his Premiership were undertaken to meet grave foreign policy crises facing France during 1954. Indochina, German rearmament, and North Africa all demanded prompt decision; probably no French political leader but Mendes-France would have approached them with such determination. His real concern, however, was with economic problems. Foreign policy was an unfortunate diversion, keeping him from his ambitious project of clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France...
...reading clerk of the U.S. Senate droned and stumbled through President Eisenhower's message on Formosa, about 40 Senators sat in the chamber listening intently. The faces of some reflected doubt-of others, determination. All looked grave. After the reading, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the joint resolution that would implement the message...
...with gin, young Morland secretly painted sexy love scenes, lowered them on a string to a confederate to be sold for gin money. Before his apprenticeship ended, Morland turned down a handsome offer from the painter Romney, set off on a roistering, rakehell career that sent him to his grave...
...other butterfat countries (e.g., Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia) the test plan got a rancid reception. "The effect of the present proposal," said New Zealand Ambassador Sir Leslie Munro, "is to export a domestic difficulty at the risk of grave injury to . . . smaller and weaker countries...