Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much the same. "One dislikes interference of this kind in matters between man and wife," said the Liberals' Clement Davies. "A disreputable transaction," rumbled Tory Winston Churchill. The government, refusing to publish its special commission's report, offered no answer beyond the statement that they "viewed with grave concern the danger which recognition [of Seretse] would cause." What His Majesty's ministers refused to admit was readily added by Seretse himself. "It has been firmly believed at home for a long time," he told reporters, "that there is pressure from the Union of South Africa...
...quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every occasion and every pretext. Instead of laboring to think up something new or studying experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx could rise from the grave and see such a follower (if this term is permissible), he undoubtedly would immediately disown...
...brought about the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution in our country. The Second World War brought Popular Democratic (i.e., Soviet) regimes in Central and Southeast Europe, the victory of the great Chinese people. Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...
...long war against the white plague, medicine's two most useful search tools have had a grave defect. Chest X rays and the tuberculin skin test both indicate whether the patient has ever had tuberculosis, but the skin test does not show-and X rays show only imperfectly -whether the disease is still active. Last week, doctors all over the U.S. were calling New York for details of a new, simple test which indicates how active the tubercle bacilli are in the patient's system at the time the test is made...
...didn't you say so?" Wooden Soldiers. It is Graves's grave conclusion that the growing decadence of what was once called Christendom is leading to a point where even when the swearer has a full, fruity vocabulary his soul will be too withered to put proper punch into even his most foul-mouthed efforts. This decadence has even seeped into the British army, Graves avers; but since Britons do their best with their backs to the wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their...