Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike man named Ernest Ivison Pugmire sits at the command center of a great social welfare program. His brown eyes behind rimless spectacles are the eyes of a gentle, dedicated man. His martial, stiff-collared uniform is the uniform of a militant faith. On the walls of his large, comfortable office hang...
Wallach admitted that there was still a question whether this witness "who is undergoing grave struggles of conscience" will definitely come forward, but added, "He may be persuaded to play the part of the complainant himself, with my position changed to that of a corroborating witness and counsel on the complaint...
Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
...most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...
Flanders stressed the importance of a strong air force but insisted that it would be a grave error for this nation to engage the Soviets in an armament race. Such a venture would be a "costly and destructive defensive operation...