Word: graver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same hot sun brought still graver trouble to U.S. powermen. TVA's reserves were so depleted that it had only a nine-week supply of water left. In Nashville, Tenn., in the midst of TVA's vast power development, the Vultee aircraft plant had to close down, suspend work on observation planes for the U.S. Army, dive bombers for Britain...
...should be realized that a war is going on and a still graver crisis is facing Japan. The uncertain state of the Premier's condition is depressing...
Crisis Grows Graver...
...merchant-shipping losses to the Germans, 60,000 tons a week, were up 40,000 a week since June. Gravely the question was raised as to whether help in large quantity from anywhere could reach Britain in the face of the ever-stiffening counter-blockade. And this raised the graver question of how tenable were the home islands themselves, not only the seat of empire but the forge of most of its war sinews and the one great base of its all-important...
...Japanese blessed with farsightedness saw things abroad to make them lose their heads in graver ways. They saw that Japan had been treated to the short end of the Axis, that the three-way pact had tremendous advantages for Germany and Italy, but that it merely brought Japan new wrath from the U. S. and renewed suspicion from Russia. To Winston Churchill the pact was so weighted against Japan that he wondered "whether there are not some secret clauses." Besides this lopsided pact, there were specific threats...