Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans-and the U.S. was plunged into the gravest crisis in Latin American relations since the Bay of Pigs invasion...
Although Two Roads struggles to be dispassionate, its sympathies obviously lie with the Northern cause. Lincoln let pressures push him "to the brink of demagoguery" with his violent House Divided speech, but the gravest failure of moderation was in the South. Davis and other Southern leaders betrayed their temperate beliefs when they abandoned temperate methods as inexpedient...
...Their gravest blunder, and in retrospect the least excusable, was the notion that they could participate--even lead--in whipping up the most extreme and uncompromising attitudes among their constituents and local party delegations, then restrain these attitudes in time to avert misfortune.... By going so dramatically and forcefully on record in favor of the extreme position, Davis and his colleagues encouraged, if they did not ensure, the political result they did not really want...
...perhaps the gravest peril Russell sensed was that this was merely a prologue to future measures that could result "in an almost unilateral disarmament that could be ruinous." Added he, in a slap at the Administration: "It is my own belief that a comprehensive test ban that prohibited underground testing, but without adequate inspection rights, would have been entered into, except for the fear that the U.S. Senate would not consent to ratification...
Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...