Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With astonishing speed in a frantic Washington weekend, an effort by President Nixon to compromise in the battle for his tapes and to preserve the authority of his office crashed toward a fateful climax, leaving his survival in the Oval Office in grave doubt and pitching the nation into one of the gravest constitutional crises in its history. There were these stunning developments in rapid sequence...
Despite the earnestness of Kissinger's trip, that rearmament duel fed fears that the Nixon Administration's most impressive accomplishment, relaxation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., might be in grave jeopardy. Much of the week's early rhetoric was hardly encouraging. Presidential Adviser Melvin Laird complained publicly to correspondents that "the only manner in which détente can be proven is by deeds, not words, and the Soviet Union has not been performing as if détente were here." A recognition that the new relationship was an enveloping issue in the crisis was echoed...
...Egyptian armed forces performed a miracle, by any military standard. I would not be exaggerating if I say that military historians will long pause to examine and study the operation carried out on Oct. 6. The risk was enormous and the sacrifices were grave. But the results of the first six-hour battle of our war were magnificent. Our wounded nation has restored its honor and the political map of the Middle East has been changed...
...This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque Duke of Newcastle-he fell into a fit of crying-but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there . . . Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble...
...Grave Consequences. By week's end Soviet policy was noticeably hardening. Reacting to the reports of Israeli strikes on a Soviet ship, Pravda warned that grave consequences for Israel could result from Russian casualties. The Soviets were also unhappy with President Nixon's vice-presidential nomination of Representative Gerald Ford, whom they know to be a strong supporter of Israel. But, on balance, U.S. officials concluded that Soviet policy still reflected caution. Commented one White House official: "The real test will come when the Arabs are doing badly and the Soviets have to decide what...