Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western powers allow Germany an industrial output keyed to an annual steel production of 11.1 million tons; actually, West Germany's mills produce only 9 million. The country has 1,300,000 unemployed. Industry's gravest trouble: a severe shortage of credit to finance reconstruction. Both Germans and Americans have been loth to invest in German industry. Said one wise U.S. economist: "The critical question is still one of confidence...
...gravest charge: "Through repetition [Southern newspapers] have made the word 'Negro' in a headline synonymous with 'crime' and, in the minds of many, with 'rape.'" In 4½ months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT...
...York's union cab drivers struck yesterday in a city-wide dispute that emptied the streets of most of the city's 11,510 taxicabs, and the city's entire police force was put under "gravest emergency" orders. Although some drivers defied pickets there were no reports of any passengers being molested. The striking union called the walkout in a bid to win recognition as bargaining agent for the cab firms' drivers, mechanics, and other employees...
These blasts against the utilities evoked some sympathetic echoes in many U.S. towns and villages. To conserve power, some companies have called for voluntary brownouts. In other areas, notably the Northwest and Southeast, where the power shortages are gravest, residents have been asked to cut down their use of electricity or go without. New Englanders had a different problem. There, power was so expensive that it tended to drive industries away. Were the utilities to blame for the shortage...
...first with the No. 9 iron, then the No. 8 and on up the ladder to the woods. He considered the wind and terrain even in practice, controlled every shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century ago, Hogan likes to say that he never hits a careless shot...