Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of America's associates in mutual defense were also having grave difficulties, partly because of the conflict between arms needs and the pressure for a higher standard of living. To seek a way out of the growing crisis in Western defense, many U.S. leaders, including Acheson, Lovett, Harriman and Bradley, had gathered in Paris, journeyed out to Marly to consult with SHAPE'S General Dwight Eisenhower. The problem with which they wrestled cast a shadow over Thanksgiving rejoicing...
...grossly wrong. We have to recover that sense of personal obligation on the part of the voter and that sense of public trust on the part of the elected official which give meaning to political life. Those who are selected for office by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They have been selected not for self-enrichment, but for conscientious public service. In their speech and in their actions they are bound by the same laws of justice and charity which bind private individuals in every other sphere of human activity...
There is already far too much bigotry and bitterness on both sides between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the U.S., and President Truman has therefore done his country a grave disservice in aggravating and intensifying that bigotry, and in giving powerful new stimulus to the bitterness, by his appointment of an ambassador to the Pope...
Belated but commendable vigilance had saved the U.N. from a possibly grave setback. But vigilance alone was not going to get peace in Korea; it remained to be seen whether steady military pressure, without a full-scale offensive, would...
Friends found him and carried him back to Villa's headquarters, where a carpenter made a blue cross to put on his grave when he died. Pancho Villa himself told the painter that the lettering on the cross should read, "Lieut. Colonel Pedro Gomez." Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters. One of them accidentally touched off a fuse and the car blew up. The only survivor: Gomez...