Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case was even more grave than the exposure of Alger Hiss, inasmuch as 1) White held higher positions in the Government, and 2) it was never alleged that a President of the U.S. had been officially informed that Hiss...
Specific conflicts in which it is notably grave...
Last week the President looked remarkably tanned and fit for a man with one foot in the grave, but the whispers continued to swirl around him. At his press conference, a reporter asked him politely how he was feeling and gave Ike the opportunity to stamp out the plague of rumors-at least temporarily. "Well," said the President with a grin, "I will tell you. As you people know ... I have had sort of a sore elbow which has prevented me from getting my exercise to which I am accustomed, which I think I need, and which I love.* Aside...
...well. He sets out to recoup by courting and marrying a well-to-do ex-barmaid (vivaciously played by Brenda Bruce), but she proves more than a match for him. A third lady now crosses his path-a path that leads, after many turns, but to the grave...
...inhuman program of horror which they underwent, and points up the extreme heroism of those who did not sign, rather than attaching any special blame to the men who broke under the strain. After days of beatings and starvation, the Communists would make a victim dig his own grave, then they put a pistol to his head, and gave him a final chance to sign a confession. It is not difficult to understand how a man could convince himself that it was all right to sign...