Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early reports put the death toll at 1,000 to 2,000, but by week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...
...much the effete snobs with white canvas shoes need that elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk of life. I am sure the vast majority of Harvard students resent this spectacle of being forced into a position of seeking escape form the responsibilities forced on us in the gravest time of our history. The Senate-House rewrite version should prohibit all deferments at the end of the school year except in a few cases. Francis J. Bassett Graduate School of Education
...away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband. I had ceased to care how I looked...
...German anti-armament feeling has weakened Western Europe's unity and will to resist Communism at the very moment of the gravest postwar world crisis...
Cause of Freedom. With each succeeding volume, Churchill's canny grasp of the changing world situation and Allied strategic necessities becomes more astonishing. His endless stream of memoranda to subordinates, to F.D.R., to Stalin, are magnificently informed, range from the gravest military decisions to a recommendation (to the Minister of Economic Warfare) to try a John Steinbeck novel. Reading them-and even a Churchill memo on cleaning destroyer-boilers is readable-it is possible to feel the urgency about things large & small that the man felt himself...