Word: graver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excited headlines. S.A.O. terrorism was hardly Charles de Gaulle's main concern last week. Far graver was the challenge to his authority posed by France's economy. It took the form of a spreading labor strike led by 188,000 stubborn miners concentrated in the grim coal districts of northern France. Three rival unions (Roman Catholic, Socialist, Communist) were out of the pits in a joint demand for a 12% pay boost to compensate for the creeping inflation that has wiped out much of their purchasing power in the past three years...
...next Byrd. William III, committed sins far graver, in the family's view, than the mere stealing of kisses. He blew the family fortune through gambling and wild spending, lost Westover, committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1777. As a French and Indian War colonel, however, he had fought so gallantly that his portrait hangs today in the restored Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg. Most tourists are happily unaware that in the Revolutionary War his sympathies were with George...
Earlier, to a divided but demonstrative audience of 400 at M.I.T., Professor H. Stuart Hughes, independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Arthur L. Waskow of the Peace Research Institute, had estimated that the dangers of a self-perpetuating arms build-up were far graver than those which independent action for disarmament would entail...
...years to come: "President John F. (1961-69), President Robert F. (1969-77), President Edward F. (1977-), and before you know it we are in 1984, with Caroline coming up fast and John F. Jr. just behind her." New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there is just about the right age difference among the Kennedy brothers." Reaching back into history, the Philadelphia Bulletin discussed the dynastic problems of Napoleon Bonaparte, who "had four brothers...
...than you will find one in a duck's egg," said Red Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi last July. Scarcely five months later, the duck's egg was cracked wide open. Hatched was an ugly little basilisk, confronting Moscow with a threat to its supremacy far graver than Yugoslavia's defection in 1948. The Soviet Union has the political muscle to keep most of the world's 81 Communist parties in line, and superior economic resources to offer poor nations willing to boost themselves by the nearest bootstrap. But the Chinese Communists are far from...