Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognized as the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War. It hovered at the edge of violence and was filled with the potential of tragedy. Yet at times it seemed that the whole story was a farce being played out by sad-faced puppets...
...Communist Excuse. For the regime, it was the gravest political threat since the Civil War. but the government's first reaction was mild. For weeks, no action at all was taken. Then a state of emergency was declared in the three provinces most affected; 4.000 fresh troops and militiamen were sent in to reinforce the local authorities. But the cops were careful to avoid excessive trouble. Avoiding a showdown. Franco sent a trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse...
...Expulsion: the gravest possible, it too must be voted by the Faculty. When a student is expelled, his name is removed from all university records, and he may never return. There has not been an expulsion for more than twenty years...
...confessor who would dare impose an obligation in such matters except in the most clear-cut cases of dishonesty." Since President Kennedy has taken some public positions which do not agree with those of the Catholic hierarchy, said Father Reedy, "a few of the religious spokesmen who voiced the gravest preelection fears have unfairly implied that Mr. Kennedy is a good Catholic President because he is a bad Catholic. The judgment flows from an ignorance of the Catholic's personal responsibility to his conscience, from an ignorance of the ordinary relationships between the Catholic and his confessor...
...satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space in the Berlin corridors had been canceled...