Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before, Opposition Leader Rainer Barzel had tried and failed by a bare margin of two votes to overthrow Chancellor Willy Brandt. But over beer and in countless hurried conferences, the two men were seeking to find a mutual way out of a severe parliamentary crisis that threatened to have grave repercussions far beyond the borders of the Federal Republic...
...battlefield situation is grave...
...legion. Many of the area's senior citizens seemed convinced that radical youths would descend upon their sunny fastness and murder them in their beds. Before the meeting, Oliver Bright, president of the Greater Miami Crime Commission, issued a somewhat shrill statement claiming that the area faces a grave "crime crisis" if Miami Beach is host to back-to-back national political conventions. The statement said in part: "The likelihood of 100,000 or more militants, demonstrators and hippies camping on the beach, in the parks and on the streets for six weeks could be disastrous for our police...
...bishops, said the church contains many "wistful skeptics," some of whom are clergymen. "Probably not for centuries has the witness of Christian people on ultimate questions been so hesitant and uncertain." The Articles of Religion of Methodist Founder John Wesley, for instance, stated that Jesus arose bodily from the grave. But a 1965 poll showed that only 49% of the Methodist clergy believe this any more...
...have grave misgivings about the position of the University, on the Gulf Oil issue. After thinking the matter over for the past few weeks I am led to the inescapable conclusion that the official stand taken by the Corporation is motally indefensible and politically unwise...