Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe was Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt. His unexpected sweep into Luxembourg and Belgium had sent a chill through every nation from which the Germans had been recently driven. While the chill lasted, liberated Europeans might be expected to bury their deep civil differences in that common grave which held the latest victims of German savagery. At least for the moment, some of the Left and some of the Right seemed to have grasped the fact that so long as the common enemy must still be fought and defeated, they must forgo the luxury of fighting and defeating...
...greater because nobody knew how great it really was. Normally, CCFer Godfrey could hardly expect to win in a constituency that has always voted for the old-line parties. But this election was not normal. Postwar problems entered into the campaign, but it was being fought largely on the grave issue of conscription. In a three-cornered fight, if Godfrey took enough votes away from McNaughton, Tory Candidate Case might win. But Tories foresaw a split of the anti-Liberal vote. If his candidate lost, Prime Minister King would almost certainly have to appeal the verdict to the whole country...
Radical Proposal. This also was a conservative document, by comparison with that of white-thatched, vigorous, 65-year-old Economist Sir William Beveridge, author of Britain's "cradle-to-grave" social-security plan. The white paper's policy, he wrote, "is not practical and it is not radical-does not go to the root of the matter. . . . Whether private ownership of means of production to be operated by others is a good economic device or not, it must be judged as a device. It is not an essential liberty in Britain, because it is not and never...
There had been, said the House Campaign Expenditures Committee, "numerous reports that the Gallup poll might have been used to try to influence the outcome of the elections." Last week in Washington, appearing before the committee at his own request, big, grave Dr. George H. Gallup set out to answer them. He admitted that early in the campaign he had adjusted his prediction of the Presidential returns in a way that seemed to favor Tom Dewey, deducting 2% from the Roosevelt plurality actually indicated by the polls. His explanation: he had expected a light vote, which would presumably have benefited...
...Eisenhower made them. As all the world now knows, the invasion was postponed for one day on account of stormy weather. The forecast for June 6 was anything but promising, but another postponement would have meant waiting two weeks for favorable tides. And that would have involved a grave risk to secrecy and morale. The Germans had been led to expect a landing at a later date and a point farther east on the coast. Eisenhower gambled on the weather for the sake of tactical surprise...