Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credited with the theoretical discovery that led to a successful H-bomb, Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel Prizewinning director of the University of California's radiation laboratory at Livermore, Calif., and Mark M. Mills, physicist and head of the lab's theoretical division. They brought a report of grave but potentially hopeful meaning. In the lab at Livermore, they told the President, scientists have found how to make H-bombs that will be 96% freer from radioactive fallout than the first models. Given more time and more testing, they added, the U.S. could make a truly nonradioactive weapon...
...income-tax case because the Justice Department declined "to produce unauthenticated summaries of interviews with witnesses." Under the Administration bill, trial judges would first screen the files for their relevancy before making them available to the defense. The Senate subcommittee, making clear that its haste stemmed from a "grave emergency in law enforcement," approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent...
...goats. The question is not whether people's feelings here and there may be hurt, or names 'dragged through the mud,' as it is called. The real issue is whether the danger of abuses and the actual harm done are so clear and substantial that the grave risks of fettering free congressional inquiry are to be incurred by artificial and technical limitations...
...turned this specter loose in the Communist world? The answer seemed to be that Mao was primarily concerned with solving the strains and stresses created by Red China's grave economic difficulties-and perhaps was trying to prevent a Hungarian-style outbreak in his own land...
When the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould died, the hymn they sang over his grave was one he wrote for children that may well outlast his Christian Soldiers...