Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet official. In 1930 she founded the first English-language newspaper in the Soviet Union, the Moscow News. But she could not get along with her Russian associates. One of the squabbles she got into was taken to Stalin himself for judgment. Said she: "His eyes were kind yet grave, giving rest and assurance...
...have grave doubts Japan has any value in a war with Russia. I think it might be better to pull out before the war started ... I am not so certain we could hold Japan, nor am I certain it would be worthwhile as long as we have Okinawa and the Philippines...
Broadway's Billy Rose stepped off the plane at Honolulu, cracked from beneath a yoke of traditional leis: "I feel like a well-kept grave...
...WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse during the period of student pranks and caused the basement of a two-family house to be FLOODED BY THREE FEET OF BELMONT SPRINGS WATER...
...Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher value than literature, but it belongs to a different world ... As a novelist, I must...