Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overall monthly totals may conceal grave lags in the kind of bombers and fighters the armed forces need most. For window-dressing purposes, any month's total could easily be pushed to 10,000 by concentrating on trainer planes. But the October figures were solid, according to WPB production experts...
Germany. London cabled: "Reports from Berlin indicate that Germany may collapse earlier than the most sanguine Allied optimists can afford to believe." The Berlin correspondent of Stockholm's Allehanda cabled: "The situation facing Germany in these November days is grave, difficult, exacting...
...citizenry had been anti-Fascist for a long time; but many had had grave doubts of the State Department's attitude-e.g., the Darlan situation. Now, as of November 1, 1943, good, grey Cordell Hull had placed himself and his men squarely on the record: the U.S. Government, like the U.S. people, wanted no more compromise with Fascism or with Fascists or demi-Fascists. This clearing of the air was notable...
...came, and with it the intoxication of initial victory. But soon the hangover followed. Last week, in the Diet, Nakano heard the Emperor's message: The situation is "truly grave." Later, he heard Premier Hideki Tojo admit that the U.S., defeated at the beginning, was now "overcoming many difficulties and dangers, and the war is growing in intensity." Nakano also knew what most men-in-the-street could barely guess: Japan had suffered reverses in the South Pacific (see col. 2); Mussolini had become a shabby puppet; Hitler...
...What has happened is grave. . . . For guidance let us turn to Jesus Christ, who revealed to men not only the way of spiritual salvation, but how to create a fellowship on earth. . . . Christ wanted men to see, to see far and to see truly. . . . Christ wanted men to have hearts that comprehend the human significance of what is seen. . . . Christ wanted men to reason clearly and serenely...