Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally he graduated to plug-hat rank, spent a year as Minister to Australia, returned to China as Ambassador in February 1941, to be entrusted with the grave, back-breaking job of helping to put off Jap aggression. Soon, as Ambassador, he was superseded in influence by U.S. military missions in China...
...Times, with a straight face, expressed grave concern when less sixteen per cent of the 7000 freshmen tested failed to note that serving as President of the United States was one of the major contributions made by Thomas Jefferson to the political, economic or social development of the country. At many other points the questions were either irrelevant as indices of historical knowledge or were so insulting to the intelligence of those tested that they invoked nonsensical and ironic retorts rather than honest attempts to answer...
...Bates saved all that remained of his father's rum, kept it under lock & key. Until his own death, whenever he visited Hartford, Conn., where his father was buried, he took along a phial of the rum, ceremoniously poured it as a libation on his father's grave...
Said an official spokesman at General MacArthur's Australian headquarters: "It would be a grave fallacy to believe that even the heavy destruction caused by our naval and air power has dangerously weakened the enemy's capacity for sea transport...
...bind themselves or their unknown successors in conditions which no one can foresee. . . . [But] the time is now ripe for another great advance. . . . You must rank me and my colleagues as strong partisans of national compulsory insurance for all classes, for all purposes from the cradle to the grave...