Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battles in the Dusk. Beyond doubt the Wehrmacht had suffered far more than a grave defeat. It had met a disaster that grew hourly. Point after point along the 700-mile front from Orel to Novorossiisk fell like tenpins before the Russian avalanche. In ten weeks (less on some fronts) the Red Armies had advanced from 100 to 350 miles, often through deep snows, often in areas well suited for defense. At no point were they slowed down by the necessity of regrouping. The Russians said that they had already killed, wounded or captured nearly a million German and satellite...
...verge of strangulation by blockade (TIME, Feb. 8), denied effective military aid by circumstances and neglect, China was in effect notifying the U.S. and Great Britain that the last hour for action had come. And China was using the facts of her desperate plight to pose some grave questions to Washington and London: Will China have to orient her policy with Moscow's alone, rather than with a real United Nations? Must China, in self-preservation, seek some way to end her own war before she is thrown to Japanese conquerors and Chinese puppets? Or can China emerge from...
...hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before the deceased husband was cold in his grave. And when Macbeth murders his saintly relative, King Duncan, the outrage is unparalleled...
...died on another trip to the Riviera, at the Hotel Idéal Séjour, Cap Martin, Jan. 28, 1939. There were many drowned sailors buried near his grave, and an obscure follower of Garibaldi beside it. To Dublin, soon, came bishoplike T. S. Eliot "to speak on one whom he called 'the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in his language, and so far as I can judge, in any language...
Behind the meeting were three grave problems. One is the fierce competition between Pan American, United Air Lines and Consolidated Aircraft (through its new Consair division) for control of big additional air routes linking the U.S. with all Pacific battlefronts. The second is the relationship between the Army & Navy and airline operators. Pan American is still miffed because the Army abruptly took over its mushrooming Pan Africa last October (and grabbed some crack pilots and crewmen in the process), has since set up duplicating transport services in China...