Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Prime Minister Churchill: "It would be a grave mistake . . . for the rescuing powers of Britain and the U.S. so to act as to break down the whole structure and expression of the Italian State. We certainly do not seek to reduce Italian life to a condition of chaos and anarchy, and find ourselves without any authority with whom to deal. . . . [But] we should let the Italians . . . 'stew in their own juice' for a bit and hot up the fire...
...engagement between the island troops and the raiders. They saw precious supplies go up in smoke as the British fired dumps. They gloated inwardly at the damage to airfields and roads. They knew what it meant in the end-more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times. When the British forces evacuated the island in 1941, many remained behind, unable to get away; the invaders shot hundreds of Cretans in a vain attempt to find their hiding places. When illegal pamphlets are distributed...
...contribution today is limited for reasons which have become obvious to every Junior. This is "der Tag"-the day when all our omissions of the past are coming home to roost. It goes without saying that the situation is very grave...
Admiral Horne and his boss were well-intentioned; they were merely doing their salty best to carry out the new official Washington line against "civilian complacency," one of the causes of the current grave lag in production (TIME, July 26). But many a citizen was bound to recall the strange contrast of Admiral William F. Halsey, who predicted, in a whoopsadaisy mood last January, that he could see U.S. troops marching into Tokyo by the year...
Over the freshly sodded grave of a British pilot who crashed in Denmark, a Danish pastor, whose name did not reach the outer world, placed a stone with this inscription: "Fell in the battle, also for Denmark...