Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that had finally learned (without any help from McCarthy) that it was locked in a life-or-death struggle with world Communism, these charges were as grave as any that could be made. The underlying accusation was that its State Department was harboring Communists, knew they were Communists, and was doing so deliberately. To investigate these charges, the Senate set up a committee headed by conservative Democrat Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland...
...withholding information about the Government which the people had a right to know. Truman's prepared statement made sense-on its face. Government officials must take the responsibility of saying in each case whether military security outweighs the public right to information. This responsibility carries with it a grave and difficult duty for the Government to play fair with press and public...
...green lawn of his waterfront home near the refinery, K.B. waved one more goodbye to his boys, a glass of Scotch held firmly in his hand as the ship steamed by. "Mossadeq," he said bitterly, "has not only dug Persia's grave, but he's thrown the Iranians into...
...seems that the idylls of memory and legend are no longer to be found. Beautiful Bali is torn by revolution, Shanghai is a pit of poverty where sin is sold in the marketplace and loses its flavor, and New York still races to its grave...
...gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...