Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November 13--Vice-president Reynolds announces "grave possibility" that student porters will partially replace maids next year...
Whatmough warned, "There is a very grave danger that we will lose everything in the end, for somebody may later propose a 'means test' (limiting Social Security to lower income groups). As a Lancashire man, almost as good as a Yankee, I think that we are entitled to this pension and that such a test would be unfair. But it will give us a chance to join the powerful lobby in Washington of those whom Livy unkindly calls 'aetate provectl' (advanced in years...
Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
...measured voice, Douglas laid his proposals before the Senate. They were not easily arrived at nor lightly offered, he said. They involved some grave risks. But they recognized that a greater danger lay in losing all initiative for the sake of avoiding all risk. The Douglas proposals: ¶ Pass a congressional resolution approving the Brussels agreement for a North Atlantic army. Contribute American divisions to it on a proportionate basisabout one for every 3½ European divisions. (If the Administration did not seek congressional approval in a few days, said Douglas, he would bring the issue...
...year after the publication of Part II of Don Quixote, Cervantes, 68, and suffering from dropsy, died, taking with him to his grave all but the bare outline of his life. Short of biographical details, Biographer MacEóin has resorted to sifting the collected writings in an effort to separate Cervantes' own experience from the fiction with which he embroidered it. The result, while rich in surmise, is a little thin as biography. After reading Cervantes, those who would like to know its subject better are likely to find themselves right back where they startedstaring into...