Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks." Frail & Pale. Tuberculosis was so great a killer in the iyth century, that John Bunyan wrote of Mr. Badman: "The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave." But the great outburst of the disease after the Industrial Revolution made its earlier ravages seem tame.- In the novels, plays, journals and poetry of the romantic era, Dubos & Dubos find revealing details of TB's "psychic effects, its influence on behavior and tastes." The ideal of feminine beauty...
...productive achievement was an overall triumph, it was seriously marred by one grave failure. The U.S. did not produce enough arms to meet its needs in Korea, to supply NATO, and to shore up the free world at all its other weak points. It even failed to turn out enough ammunition to supply the limited forces in Korea...
...historian, Langer said, must never surrender to the journalist and radio commentator "the grave and inspiring task of providing his fellow men with bearings on the present as well as anchorage in the past...
...circulation in Washington runs second to McCormick's Times-Herald, but the Times-Herald has been slipping while the Star has been gaining. Its staff is as secure as the paper. Starmen like to boast that no one is ever fired or laid off "except for very grave reasons." The paper's front-page trademark feature for years was the fussy, inoffensive cartooning of the late Pulitzer-Prizewinning Clifford K. Berryman, and now it is the work of his son Jim. President Kauffmann sees no reason to change the Old Lady's successful ways. Says...
...trained, but trained to do popular tricks. For every lusty "Jubili, Jubilo," there are a number of radio-like vocal gadgets and sound effects. Thus, over & over, the chorus-in a goblins'll-git-you voice-intones: "John Brown's body lies a mooolderin' in the grave." With the combined appeal of John Brown's stars and its story, there is no reason why Laughton shouldn't strike twice. But his fixed model should be the stage and Stephen Vincent Benet, not the air waves and Norman Corwin...