Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" is successful. A letter sent to the organiza tion's members explains the drive: "If our allies are permitted to miscalculate, and vote admission of Red China to the U.N., such action could lead to the gravest con sequences . . . The conventions can prove to the world the universality and solid ity of the American people's opposition through the inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas...
...lengthy article in his party journal Hondo Operaio, Nenni called the Khrushchev speech "the gravest and most dramatic document in the Communist literature of the world." Through most of his article Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter...
...runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized? Thus, "bishops, priests and faithful are placed continually before a crisis of conscience. The bishops in particular find themselves faced with the gravest decision: if they refuse to acknowledge the appointment of the candidate [the frustrated canon] he will be nominated without the bishops' consent. This will cause confusion in the diocese and there will be no one left to resist the further demands of the Communists. If, on the other hand...
...bound up with the island's defense system, and that unless the British have the key job (chairmanship) in Singapore's Security Council, their power to act in a defense emergency would be hopelessly impaired. Lennox-Boyd pledged that Britain would exercise this power only in the gravest national emergency...
Last week, before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, General Electric Co. Vice President Fran cis K. McCune said: "The gravest problem now facing the atomic energy business is that of liability for the consequences of an atomic incident. It is the business of private enterprise to take risks. It is, however, quite another thing to say that you will embark on a course which might affect the stability of your company or its very existence...