Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pregnant women of Nagasaki's 1945 atomic bomb were reported by a team of Los Angeles researchers: of 98 within the radiation area, 30 showed major injuries and had three miscarriages, four stillbirths, six babies who died within a year and four mentally retarded. The other 68 escaped grave injury, but also had a far higher proportion of stillborn or stunted children than a similar group outside the blast area. ¶Measles has been rampant in some parts of the U.S. this year, with 30,475 cases by mid-April. Indiana spotted itself for distinction: with one-fortieth...
...Most Reverend Richard J. Cushing, Archibishop of Boston, told a presidential commission studying immigration problems in 1952, that: "The...discrimination and undemocratic features of the McCarran-Walter law, are to my mind a grave potential threat to our domestic development and our international leadership...
...hearings to nothing else, they will give Mr. Fowler's remains a measure of morbid exercise, gyrating in the grave with the pomp that the gentle linguist always deplored...
...Senators, still unnerved by Secretary Dulles' grave warnings about Indo-China (see above), were in no mood to applaud-even though Stassen promised that there would be no relaxation of tight controls on trade with North Korea or Communist China. New Jersey's usually sunny H. Alexander Smith scowled darkly when Stassen admitted that the list of nonstrategic goods for Russia included "simple types of machine tools." Snapped Senator Smith: "It seems to me that we are strengthening their war potential." With an increased supply of civilian goods from the West, he said, the Soviets "can now concentrate...
...been forbidden to provide information . . . Communication channels are [too] limited . . . Your policy disregards the fact that the security of the free world itself is at stake [and that] peoples of the free world have an inalienable right to full information consistent with military security on which to base the grave decisions they may soon be called upon to face...