Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squeal of accordions in village squares, dancing in the streets, and a dazzle of fireworks over Paris. But in the Left Bank cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, gravitational center for France's intellectuals, there is an uncertain note in the gaiety. In the grave and troubled summer of 1955, France is unsure of itself and of its mission...
...Gravely, the President dealt with grave issues. He restated basic U.S. policy on the Soviet satellite states: until they are freed, "there could be no real peace." But he shrugged over a resolution, passed 367 to 0 by the House, urging their liberation. "How?" he asked. "You are certainly not going to declare war, are you?" On world disarmament, he said flatly: "It is going to be a very long and tortuous road." Disarmament always is, he added. "I have personally been studying it for 40 years." He termed last month's Bering Strait incident, the Soviet jet attack...
...ruthless game of winning friends and influencing policy, Russia had a slight edge over India last week. With cheerful intent the Russians had sent Nehru off on one of the most exhausting tours ever planned for a visiting dignitary. At Stalingrad, after laying a wreath on a mass grave of Red army soldiers, Nehru was already complaining of "an exasperating day of dust and heat and painful war memories." Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three...
Everybody Wins. With Central stock now selling at around $43 a share, the deal turned into a bonanza for all. "We have made $10 million without one dollar of risk, and I am proud of it," said Young. Countered Lehman: "Certainly there is a very grave question in my mind whether a stock can be legitimately voted by people who have not any real ownership of that stock save as there might be an equity if the market advances . . . That deal, which you described as clever, seems too clever by my old-fashioned standards." At one point, Bob Young could...
...least from the committee I should get a congressional medal. Never mind accusing my workmanship!" When the subcommittee produced letters from his competitors complaining about the favors Lev mysteriously won from Government employees, the capmaker brushed them aside: "My competitors, they love to see me being in the grave...