Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty council should not have the final say on faculty salaries, his suggestion was rejected. Last June, without consulting the faculty, Ballantine temporarily suspended an art professor for refusing to answer questions before the Velde Committee. By a 38-9 vote, the faculty passed a resolution expressing a "grave weakening" of confidence in the president...
First Day. An awareness that failure could shatter the Atlantic alliance lent a grave and urgent air to the chandeliered conference room where the nine foreign ministers assembled at the invitation of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister...
...claim to regret the passing of the new bill. indeed, its birth has killed one of the college man's best ploys for impressing his friends. And accompanying it to the grave has gone many a student's vacation. Still, only a few weep at the funeral...
...Corporation had earlier called both Furry's and Kamin's use of the Fifth Amendment "misconduct" but not "grave misconduct" but not "grave misconduct" necessary for dismissal...
...that he was not a member of the Communist Party, had never attended party meetings with his wife, and had no knowledge of party meetings in his home. He refused however, to discuss his wife's alleged membership in the party on grounds that such a question constituted "a grave invasion of the privacy of marriage...