Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops in noncombat activities, the U.S. Army does not pay for the things it destroys when it is actually waging war. When a U.S. Liberator, returning from a raid, crashed into the village school of Freckleton, England, U.S. soldiers carried the coffins of 36 children to a common grave. But someone else would have to pay for Freckleton's tragic damage...
...this is highly important; for the literal interpretation of these same texts did much to befog our minds and emasculate our policy in the years between the wars when our main fault was that we tried Christianity too hard; and there is grave danger that we may do it again...
...radio broadcasts. From the cheers at the name of Henry A. Wallace, from the puzzled looks when Senator Truman was mentioned, and from the groans over various other candidates, it would appear that at least one group of servicemen feels that the Democratic Party has made a grave error. . . . [SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] Camp Campbell...
Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...
...theme." Example (from page 1 of Finnegans Wake}: "The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohooordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from...