Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...losing business-in that time 2,300 industries have left the state. . . . We haven't done a blessed thing to find out why they are leaving or to keep them here. During the next five years Massachusetts will have its last chance to keep itself out of the grave...
Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lake Como, surprised the Milanese by visiting the grave of Mussolini, whom he had often delighted to abuse...
Second-Class Powers, Unite. In Stockholm a few days later he was more explicit. Said the Professor, in a casual appraisal of Britain's new world position calculated to drive Winston Churchill into his grave: "Not even America and Russia can live alone. Still less can second-class powers like Britain and Sweden. Why cannot the Foreign Ministers in the socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking...
...have just finished reading "4½ minutes of Death" [TIME, July 23]. I presume the man was really "dead." If the blood had not been injected in his veins, causing his heart to begin to beat and bringing him back to life, he would have gone to his grave...
They did bring the soldier back to life, but where was he in the meantime? Was he in the same place or state, or whatever you choose to call it, that he would have been in if he had not been rescued from the grave? Where was Private Cherepanov in the period in which his heart did not beat...