Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, lean Briton was going about the country last week with the grave air of a scholar at a county fair. In Washington, the discussions on the North Atlantic alliance were about to resume. But before he settled down to that problem, Sir Oliver Franks, ambassador to the U.S. and onetime professor of moral philosophy, thought it important to make a good-will tour of the U.S. Midwest...
Later, his birthday and the hunt behind him, Churchill stood up on the floor of the House of Commons and, amid grave silence from his colleagues, demanded from Prime Minister Clement Attlee an account of the Labor government's stewardship over the nation's moldering defenses...
...most damaging evidence was given by Carabinero (security police) General Manuel Alvear, who said that Argentine Consul Luis Zervino had warned him that Chile's situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
...hope there's life), but the particulars are often fresh and lively. Mildly Saroyanesque throughout and a trifle Pollyannaish at the end, in its best scenes The Silver Whistle is genuinely funny, whether from the hobo's taradiddles or from dodderers who, with one foot in the grave, suddenly kick up commotion with the other...
Have taken all the grave-room, and we're left...