Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis Griggs, 22, and Otho Bell, 24, recently of Communist China, the grim homecoming was a portent of a grimmer future. They faced punishment (maximum penalty: death) for acts committed against their country and fellow Americans while they were prisoners of war in Korea. Each was accused of the gravest crimes under military law-aiding the enemy and ratting on their brothers-in-arms...
...result of "interrogations" by savage or, at best, callous police officers who work as though they had a quota to fill; these deaths usually being reported as suicides or "due to natural causes" . . . We should turn at least some of our concern toward the two things that present the gravest danger to the preservation of our civilization: the bewilderment of our youth in a world they never made . . . and the widespread, arrogant, contemptuous and too often sanctioned brutality on the part of a segment of our police officers...
...gravest fault," according to O'Brian, "is a failure to appraise more accurately the extent of our danger and to test measures of security against the yardstick of traditional guarantees of freedom. The answer to the problem," he added, "is a drastic revision of our security program by men soundly educated in the history of freedom...
Already shaking with economic chills and fevers, Brazil floundered last week into its gravest political crisis since the suicide of President Getulio Vargas last year. The sudden exposure of a gamy political deal involving President Joáo Café Filho brought on two angry Cabinet resignations and the dismaying collapse of the administration's plans for a controlled transfer of presidential power in next October's election...
...Flaw to Correct. The gravest defect in the revitalized A.F.L. that Meany took over was the weakness of the central leadership in comparison with some of the individual union heads. The public knew about the A.F.L.'s failure to stamp out racketeering in some of its unions-e.g., the longshoremen and teamsters. Almost as serious were the unceasing membership raids between A.F.L. unions. Meany started by negotiating a no-raiding agreement within the A.F.L. Meanwhile the unity committee mulled over some sobering statistics showing how labor was wasting its strength in internal warfare. The figures...