Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Initial U-boat successes fell off when the British woke up to the fact that the submarine was still a grave menace, and escorted their convoys more heavily. But after the fall of France, when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast of Europe, the wolf-pack system raised hob with Allied shipping. Of some 57,600,000 total deadweight tons of British shipping, U-boats sank at least 17,600,000 tons in three and a half years. Working in the Nazis' favor was the vast demand on Allied shipping for the supply of many...
Critics sometimes caricature the program of security "from the cradle to the grave" as a beautiful scheme of living in luxury without working. This it is not. An adequate system of social security would become completely unworkable spread unemployment will not endure, unless we could look forward to an expanding economy with high levels of income and employment...
...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...
...Corpsmen fixed up a wounded trooper. TIME and the news papers, rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent approach of enemy planes . . . soldiers are still rid ing forward, not bothering to take cover. . . . Furthermore, none of the soldiers is looking at the bomb bursts [which] them selves are not behaving exactly...
...countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action as a one-way partnership. We recognize that the execution of Alter and Ehrlich has been a grave blow to our vision of world labor unity...