Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, at a celebrity dinner of the Overseas Press Club, Maxim Litvinoff stood up in white-tie-&-tails to make his first public address as Russian ambassador. Round, homey Maxim Litvinoff spiced his speech with American colloquialisms, with an easy, audience-catching humor. But the speech was grave. Maxim Litvinoff pleaded...
Hawaii is dark as the grave. Hawaiians say proudly that Honolulu's blackout is "blacker than London's." After curfew sounds, at 9 p.m., any civilian found on the street may be arrested or shot...
...Though Britain's sea losses last summer and fall were but one-third of last spring's, the Battle of the Atlantic entered a grave new stage in January when...
...broadcasters themselves studied radio, admitted that something was wrong. One thing wrong: now that the burden of news broadcasts is so grave, their commercials are at best a distraction, at worst an insult to the listener. Last fortnight, at the instance of the Broadcasters' Victory Council, a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters recommended certain minimum rules for news program commercials. Among them...
...since 1776 have Americans been much interested in British politics. Few U.S. folk today know how Parliament works or whether the British have a constitution for their "constitutional mon archy."* But before 1942 is out, what happens politically in England may have grave consequences in the U.S. and to the United Nations' effort...