Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a local anesthetic, it takes about 20 minutes (and costs from $25 to $100). It does not change the man's sexual functioning in any way, except that the normally sperm-carrying fluid is free of sperm. Because the legal status of such operations is clouded in grave doubt, the doctor usually demands a statement, signed by both husband and wife, that they know what they are doing...
These words, from the report on the Foreign Service made by the Wriston committee last spring, were part of a grave warning to the Administration. The Committee was appointed by the Secretary of State to discover why, in an era when the nation's diplomatic commitments are ever increasing, its diplomatic corps appears less and less capable of doing an effective job. To emphasize the importance of the committee's findings, its membership was composed of some of America's most distinguished public servants, diplomats, businessmen and educators. Presumably, the Administration intended to act on the recommendations of the group...
...furor which arose over his departure was partly the work of his advises and partly that of 15 compus leaders who felt the Administration made a grave mistake not promoting him in the Department of Psychology, where he was as instructor for two years...
...climbed up the jagged dirt road-really a dry creek-bed-to his farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five children alone in the ramshackle house on the wild, hard land...
...Unnecessary Adjective: "If we make a habit of saying 'the true facts are these,' we shall come under suspicion when we profess to tell merely 'the facts.' If a crisis is always acute and an emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself...