Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Alfred joined Mrs. Mark DeWolfe Howe in replying that commercialism was the gravest threat. Concluding his plea for federal subsidy, Alfred predicted that theatrical standards would continue to decline, "until the theater is reopened to its audience...
...mutiny was a bitter blow to 70-year-old De Gaulle. Happy enough three years ago to watch the ultras and the army defy the Fourth Republic and bring him back to power, he now faced his gravest threat from the very forces that had helped install him. In those three years, he had skillfully employed his enormous prestige to restore the army's loyalty and bring his nation to the recognition that a French Algeria was a lost dream. With the F.L.N. leaders ready to talk peace either in France or Switzerland next month...
Higher Threshold. Adenauer's gravest cause of uneasiness was his suspicion that the new Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional military forces and to raise the "threshold" at which the U.S. would employ nuclear weapons. He also knew that the Kennedy Administration was doubtful about previous plans to build up a new deterrent force of Polaris missile submarines, under the control of NATO rather than the U.S. -a proposal that...
...humiliating eleven for eleven; the U.S. pulled out altogether. The complete break presumably suits Castro to a T. One of the gravest embarrassments to the dictatorship was the daily line-up of desperate Cubans before the embassy seeking U.S. visas to flee his Communist state. As of last week, 52,000 applications were on file. And once again he needed a new crisis to distract Cuba's attention from the growing failures of his Marxist revolution...
...finally issued, the President's directive had a desperate tone about it, with its "buy American" restrictions running counter to the longstanding Administration goal of freer world trade. The pinchy, protectionist mood of the directive made it plain that the balance-of-payments deficit is one of the gravest problems facing the U.S. and its new President. It would be a body blow to the free world if the U.S. tried to solve the problem by slashing foreign aid or by retreating to protectionism after a decade of heartening progress toward freer trade. To avoid those paths...