Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he met with congressional leaders last week, the President indicated that this was his intention. The lawmakers were struck by his humility, a quality that had not impressed them in the past. "He seemed extremely grave and sober," said a Senator. "There was no great jubilation." Nixon explained that he had remained isolated and uncommunicative because of the need for secrecy during the negotiations. "I respect the views of my critics," he said. Then he added emotionally: "I thank God for those who stood, thank God for those who gave their lives, thank God for those who suffered...
...Civil War, for example, left resentments and changes that are still felt in American society. If that conflict annealed the Union, it also lacerated the country so deeply that it lost hold of what Alistair Cooke called "the glory that will never be restored." World War I presented a grave shock to isolationist America. Afterward, the nation suffered what amounted to a great fever of xenophobia and anxiety, and the recovery period was appropriately dubbed the Aspirin...
...streets of Saigon were filled with joy and vengeance on Nov. 1, 1963-the day that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with...
...American-style government. In a nationwide broadcast, Marcos announced a new constitution that gives him dictatorial powers for as long as he chooses and declared, "It is easier perhaps and more comfortable to look back to the solace of a familiar and mediocre past. But the times are too grave and the stakes too high for us to permit the customary concessions to traditional democratic processes...
...September brought a new dedication to accuracy, and to excellence. J.J. Thorndike, John U. Munro, Osborne Ingram, and others, led a movement to restore The Crimson's credibility, a movement which seemed at first to be succeeding. But by winter, the paper was slipping back. We are in grave danger of losing all the ground we have gained". Thorndike warned the staff. JESUS H. CHRIST IN THE FOOTHILLS was Ingram's comment on one particularly outrageous error. The enthusiastic newshounds insisted that the paper be expanded: six pages, they said, was the minimum necessary to do justice to College...