Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impasse. The Soviet leaders wanted the U.S. to quit Europe and go home. "Then they would automatically dominate the whole continent." Dulles did not believe that the Soviet leaders wanted war. "They are too smart to challenge us at a level where, temporarily at least, they are at a grave disadvantage. The present challenge is at a level where they are well equipped and where we are poorly equipped...
...against the background of the nation's adventures in foreign affairs since the end of the war. One fact seemed to have emerged already: seldom in world history had there been such an earnest effort to plant peace and seldom had a policy been based on such a grave miscalculation...
Over My Dead Body. Historian Fuess made four years of history an Andover requirement, despite a trustee who said that U.S. history would be made compulsory only over his dead body. ("In three years," Fuess calmly recalls, "he "was in his grave, and American history was required of every senior.") Fuess argues that too many private-school graduates "feel that they have performed their civic duty when they have grudgingly paid their taxes and damned the Government...
Morphine is the best pain-killing drug that doctors know. But it has grave defects: it is habit-forming, makes many patients sick, gradually weakens in its effect until bigger & bigger doses must be given. A new drug which seems to be a great improvement on morphine is now being studied by the U.S. Public Health Service and other researchers. The new drug, amidone, appears much less likely to cause addiction than morphine...
...most desperately for it. Guilt may overthrow a man who (by human standards) is unconscious that he has incurred any guilt. Chance, the irrational number by which man confesses the failure of his intellectual algebra, may throw a man off course for a whole lifetime, and even beyond the grave. "When you have once been misled by bells tolling in the night," wrote Kafka, "you can never find the right path again...