Word: gravest
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Then, in the capital letters that the Union Leader reserves for matters of gravest import. Loeb concluded...
Adenauer's gravest concessions may reshape Bonn's foreign policy. Some of the Free Democrats' nationalistic notions were recognized in the contract, such as support for an ''active'' policy by which Bonn would deal directly with Eastern European nations, notably Czechoslovakia and Poland. The more significant development was the resignation of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, whose scalp was offered by Adenauer as a sop to the Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate...
...obvious that many other chapters would be discussed. Opening the historic meeting, Chairman Victor Haedo of Uruguay's nine-man National Council called it a "rendezvous with duty." Said he: "We cannot waste an instant to resolve what may unite us. America is facing one of ithe gravest moments of its history...
...proud aloofness from the European Continent. As recently as last month, Punch could lampoon a "European" as "one who believes Britain to be part of Europe." But last week, with diffident step, Britain was moving toward what Prime Minister Macmillan has frankly admitted "will be one of the gravest decisions Britain has ever taken." The question: to join, or not to join, the six nations of the Continent's flourishing Common Market (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) in economic-and perhaps, ultimately, political-union...
...were permitted to run free and wild by top state and local officials who, from Alabama's Governor John Patterson on down, abdicated their duties of maintaining law and order. The result by week's end was a brutal, bloody outbreak of violence that brought on the gravest federal-state conflict since Little Rock...