Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...
Emmanuel explained that many non-Communists, regarding Bloch as a man of letters and a journalist, had paid their respects at his grave...
...State Dean Acheson slipped through the side entrance of the White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and General Omar Bradley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And there was Harry...
...willing to endure the displeasure of the U.S. State Department (TIME, Dec. 26) and the criticism of the Organization of American States. Last week, under the indignant prodding of Cuban Ambassador Gonzalo Giiell, the five-man Inter-American Peace Commission finally got off a letter to Trujillo expressing "grave concern" and pointing out that the O.A.S. had machinery to settle quarrels between states. At week's end Trujillo sent a tart rejoinder: "The Dominican Republic, a victim of aggression, is anxious to study the problem with other American states...
...Yorkers got a good idea last week of what scientists look like. Fifteen thousand of them converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...