Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definition of war. Said Dr. Wright: "War is a condition where tensions pass the threshold of a certain intensity of pressure." Some of these tensions, summed up the panel secretary later, could be measured-"like gastric ulcers, and crime and suicide rates." It was a matter of grave concern, said the secretary, that the world was unable "to measure whether tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are decreasing, or are greater than the tensions within China...
Some sort of sign of stability was recorded, however, in the announcement that for the third year in the row, Joan Crawford had been awarded the Poon's humh-in-nose accolade as the "Actress with the Most Toes in the Grave...
Hoover testified: 1. That the Communists are directed "from Paris with a very definite pipeline into Moscow" and that they are a present danger to this country in the event of war with a Communist nation. 2. That he has "grave doubts" as to the wisdom of making martyrn out of Communists by outlawing them. Also, he said the law might later be ruled unconstitutional...
What he said (see below) caused most of the Congress to look unusually grave. There were a few exceptions: midway in the speech, Republican Leader Bob Taft took off his glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
Beresford Richards, the loud-mouthed CCFer who was once suspended from his party for urging a CCF coalition with other left-wing parties, rose in the Manitoba Legislature to denounce U.S. troops stationed in Canada. "Canada," said he, "is being sucked into United States' . . . militarism and is in grave danger of losing her sovereignty." A U.S. plane, he added, had been stunting only 60 feet over houses in The Pas, Man., and "the citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave...