Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once had the U.S. exercised its veto in the United Nations Security Council. Though the Soviet Union has voted "nyet" 105 times, it was implicit American policy to use the veto only in grave emergencies...
...rave about in Carswell's record, fewer still can find enough to deny him their vote. Liberal Republicans who bucked Nixon on the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system and the nomination of Clement Haynsworth are loath to buck him again and must be shown something of a grave nature to deny him Carswell. Subjective criticism of his judicial talents, a 22-year-old racist speech, and other evidence of a segregationist past are considered insufficient reason to reverse the Senate tradition that a President is entitled to choose whom he wishes...
...ordered North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops out of Cambodia. In a number of border clashes with Communist troops, the Cambodian army called for - and got - help from U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. With the war continuing in South Viet Nam and with the North wrestling with the grave problems that have grown out of the conflict, all four states of Indochina were on the boil at the same time...
...motion made on behalf of the Faculty Council by Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy-making it implicit in the Resolution that "intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation"-was passed by voice vote...
...serious economic plight of the Soviet Union. Once before, a similar situation presaged a change of leadership; that was in 1964, when Nikita Khrushchev was ousted mainly because of economic troubles. Ever since Brezhnev's secret speech to the Central Committee in mid-December, which stressed grave economic problems, there has been speculation that a change might take place in the top leadership some time this year...