Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a St. Louis speech last September, served notice on the Chinese Communists. Said he: "There is the risk that, as in Korea, Red China might send its own army into Indo-China . . . Such a second aggression could not occur without grave consequences which might not be confined to Indo-China." This week Dulles told the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the extent to which the Chinese have ignored his warning. The situation: "Rather ominous...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
...Communist control of Southeast Asia would carry a grave threat to the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, with whom we have treaties of mutual assistance. The entire West Pacific area, including the so-called 'offshore island chain,' would be strategically endangered...
Many another Tory had long recognized the need for modernizing the Conservative Party (Beveridge's cradle-to-grave plan was instigated by Churchill's Tory-dominated wartime coalition government, and was endorsed by most Tories). Essentially, however, the modernization finally came not so much because the Tories sought it, as because they were forced to it. No sudden lightning flash of inspiration and generosity on the part of the Tories brought about the change; the electorate, by administering a resounding rebuke, made it imperative. But in the swirling waters of social change now loosed by the Socialists intent...
...late '30s and early '40s he was a prince of moochers and a court jester to an aging band of once rollicking Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...