Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had presented the nine Americans on the commission with a great opportunity and grave responsibility. The problem of security was obvious and compelling. But no one wanted the throttling kind of thought control inspired by Mc-Carthyism and leading, as Harry Truman aptly put it, to "the deadly imposition of conformity." Many a plain citizen, confused and alarmed by all the whirling words, would listen carefully to a quiet, disinterested voice that spoke with knowledge and authority. The commission might fail; but if it could find the way to security with freedom, it would earn a nation...
...Grave Dangers. Attlee said that Britain joined in condemning Red China's intervention "in support of an aggressor" in Korea, but "...we do not believe that the time has yet come to consider further measures." When Attlee finished, Churchill warned against the "grave dangers" that would result from "any serious divergencies...between our policy and that of the United States." Churchill was interrupted by Laborite Ellis Smith, who shouted: "We are not going to be trapped into war." Smith and many other Britons fear that "hysterical" or "angry" U.S. diplomacy might land the U.S. (and Britain...
Nothing in the crowd of sturdy, suntanned relatives who saw Farmer Bunker to his grave could remind anyone of the medical quirk-luridly advertised by Barnum-that made freaks of their ancestors...
...that mean the shortage was less grave than had been feared? On the contrary, said Larson, "there is certainly and obviously a crying need for all the metal we can get [this] year and...next...We need further expansion. However, I cannot officially do anything about...
...into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done its work-or as Diogène's half-Christian uncle sums everything up, "The pencil of God has no eraser...