Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing screens in France and Algeria appeared tall, grave Charles de Gaulle, seated at his desk, ready to disclose to France and the world his plan to end the savage, five-year-old Algerian war. His words, ringing with purpose, marked a watershed in French history: "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed...
Later at a press conference, the President was asked about a summit conference after Khrushchev's visit to Washington. The President said: "Any summit meeting would be a grave mistake unless there was confidence among all of us that real progress of some kind could be achieved." German reporters, long fed on Washington punditry about the "sick" Ike, were impressed by the President's mastery of his topics. "He's firm," said one. Another reporter said: "He's decisive...
BOND INTEREST. Ike warned of "grave consequences" if Congress fails to heed his request for cancellation of interest-rate ceilings on long-term U.S. Government bonds so that the Treasury can float long-term bond issues and shake free of its present instability-fostering reliance on short-term bonds (see BUSINESS...
...plain citizens alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
...rates up even higher. Such a development during the next year would put Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson in the worst position of any Treasury Secretary since the 1920s in maintaining a market for Government securities. The committee's action, said Anderson, "is a matter of grave concern...