Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson had criticized the proposed work of the special assistant to the Attorney-General, who is supposed to keep special records on state employees and find "reasonable doubt" as to their loyalty. Such activity, he said, might "lead to grave peril to the reputations of innocent people...
...provoking change. It has been described in many ways, some unprintable, but the Boston Record summed it up recently when it said, "Harvard is no longer the staunch supporter of the best American traditions it used to be." That Harvard has grown too radical for its traditions is a grave charge, one which every alumnus should want to track down for himself...
...They propose a very, very drastic sort of cure for something the President would consider a very grave error. He needed time to think that over...
...stand. After speaking of past U.S. help to Italy, the ambassador added: "But if-I am required in all honesty to say this-but if . . . the Italian people should fall unhappy victims to the wiles of totalitarianism of the right or the left . . . there would follow-logically and tragically-grave consequences for this intimate and warm cooperation we now enjoy...
...which describe the pullout of what was left of the 2nd Division. By this time it was every man for himself. For six miles, men and vehicles ran a one-road gauntlet lined by steep hills occupied by the Chinese. The valley became a shooting gallery and a common grave. Heroism was as common as death, but heroism was not enough. What broke out of the gauntlet was perhaps the most completely smashed division in U.S. military history...