Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advice. Under a Norway maple, Dewey talked to reporters while Warren nodded approvingly. Dewey thought the situation in Berlin was "grave," said he was keeping "in close touch" through his foreign adviser, John Foster Dulles. Whom did he think the Democrats would nominate? Dewey fixed the reporter with his brown eyes, smiled slowly, and said: "I never give advice to the opposition...
...shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
...Communists. One day last week Communist President Klement Gottwald made a gesture of exorcism. The new President and his wife drove to the little cemetery where Jan Masaryk is buried beside his great father Thomas. President and Mrs. Gottwald laid red roses on Jan Masaryk's grave. But the ghost still walked...
...middle register of acting. He takes such little words as My father's spirit in arms! and communicates and is worthy of their towering poetry. He can toss off lines like For every man hath business and desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate himself in his grave. His inflection of Hamlet's reply to Ophelia's You are keen, my lord, you are keen (It would cost you a groaning, to take off my edge) is enough to make the flesh crawl with its cruelty, the complexity which leaps into view behind the cruelty...
...Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was grave but pleased. In Cairo he announced to assembled newsmen that both Jews and Arabs had accepted his plan for a four-week truce in Palestine. At one point Bernadotte humbly said: "If we hadn't got help from God Almighty . . ." He looked up and saw some cynical smiles among his listeners. Bernadotte screwed his monocle more firmly into his right eye, continued: "Without His help, we wouldn't be sitting here...