Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloaked by the North African darkness, eight men watched breathlessly for the signal light. At the appointed hour no light showed. In grave danger of capture, possibly of execution as spies, the men waited on. Finally, at a second prearranged hour, the light gleamed from a darkened house. Breathing more easily, the eight strode forward into the light and into the house jammed with French Army officers...
...they could have a whole artillery of quips to fling at Yale men in their battalions. Football, that felic of an unharnessed past, would be a pleasant memory. And even Frank Merriwell, for whom God, country, and Yale were synonymous, might have a few uneasy moments in his literary grave...
Hershey's Black Christmas. Same day Colonel Lewis Sanders, chief of the Selective Service's Re-employment Division, warned a Senate committee that the manpower crisis would be grave between December and February, and that with enough funds the Selective Service could handily handle the whole problem. His chief, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, had made this warning many times, usually while giving the back of his hand to Mr. McNutt...
...hard at work, but his mood was that of a man well satisfied. The usual weekly meeting with the Pacific War Council was more than routine; as the other members emerged, their grave faces reflected the seriousness of the Solomons battle (see p. 27). With his onetime brain-truster, urbane Charles W. Taussig, and Sir George Gater, Britain's Permanent Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, he discussed the urgent need for food in the West Indies; with William Green and Philip Murray he talked again about manpower (see p. 18). He also discussed the possible appointment...
...Cost. Such battles do not come cheaply. The destroyer Porter was lost, other ships damaged. But the real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...